It is legalized homophobia, not same-sex relations, that is alien to Africa
From Al Jazeera America, Ugandan academic, professor of law at Makerere University in Uganda, Sylvia Tamale on legalized homophobia in Africa. Professor Tamale is the editor of African Sexualities published by Fahamu Press. During a prime time interview with…
Behind the Christian Right in Africa
From Foreign Policy in Focus,”It’s Not Just Uganda: Behind the Christian Right’s Onslaught in Africa” by Nathalie Baptiste In Uganda, being gay can now earn you a lifetime in prison. Last month, the East African country was again thrust into…
Museveni and reconstruction of homophobic colonial legacy in Africa
From Pambazuka News, “Museveni and reconstruction of homophobic colonial legacy in Africa: Which way progressives?” Horace Campbell on the passing of ‘legizlations of hate” in Uganda and Nigeria exposes the historical roots of right wing American Christian fundamentalists which goes…
The year of the homophobes
The Anti-Gay Law in Uganda and the Miracle of Denial from MarkFiore on Vimeo.
Phumzile Mtetwa & Val Kalende on Anti-LGBTI Legislation
On Africa Today with Walter Turner, Phumzile Mtetwa and Val Kalende discuss resistance strategies around the recent legislation from Uganda and Nigeria criminalising LGBTIQ people in those countries.
“Walking With Shadows” by Jude Dibia [A Review]
From the Nation, Kenya a review of Nigerian novelist, Jude Dibia’s novel “Walking With Shadows” If I were to write a novel to respond to the anti-gay politics seeping through the Ugandan border into Kenya, it would probably be like…
African groups call for the African Union to urgently respond to gender and sexuality rights violations in Africa, and particularly to anti-gay laws recently passed in Uganda and Nigeria
African groups call for the African Union to urgently respond to gender and sexuality rights violations in Africa, and particularly to anti-gay laws recently passed in Uganda and Nigeria As African civil society organisations whose members live and work to…
Africa LGBTIQ – aid conditionality & LGBT Rights
From Paper Bird by Scott Long - “Resources for the unbelievers on aid conditionality and Africa LGBT Rights” I’ve been working desultorily (a beautiful word: say it slowly: it seems to capture being lazy but just alive enough to claim…
The Day the African Commission Disavowed Humanity
The following article by Fikile Vilakazi and Sibongile Ndashe, was originally published in Pambazuka News, November 2010. The article is a response to the decision by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to deny observer status to the…
Statement from the Wits University on Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Africa
MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL DATE: MONDAY, 3 MARCH 2014 STATEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND PERTAINING TO ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY LEGISLATION IN AFRICA The University of the Witwatersrand notes with dismay and concern recent legislation in…
What is this protest about?
Pambazuka – Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now 02 Mar 14 President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious…
Sexual Liquidation & Responsibility to Protect
The Rise of Sexual Liquidation by Joseph Sewedo Today, laws are being promulgated to heighten sexual liquidation in several parts of the world. The last few months have been very challenging for human rights activists/ advocates globally, especially activists committed…
Uganda: Global Day of Action Against the AHB
UGANDA. URGENT CALL TO SUPPORT AFTER THE RECENT PASSAGE OF THE ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL IN UGANDAN PARLIAMENT. 31st JANUARY 2014 Background On 20th December 2013, Lesbian and Gay Bisexual Transgender Community in Uganda woke up to the grim news that…
The Week on Sunday – The Reward for Love is Death!
Very briefly – The December issue of Chimurenga, The Chronic is out and the $7 digital edition price is worth it if only to read two pieces. First Nick Mwaluko’s “XXYX AFRICA” a review of “three new excellent works: Queer…
#16Days: AWID Condemns Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) strongly condemns the repeated efforts, now for the third time, to introduce the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda’s Parliament. We stand in solidarity with Ugandans who are calling for their government to withdraw…
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill – 2012
The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill is back in Parliament. It’s return was announced by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga who according to this report is committed to passing the Bill by the end of the year though Ugandan activists believe it could be passed as early as this week.
QAR Weekly News
* Second hate crime in a week. Modise Hamiliton Mosweu was stabbed to death in Westonaria, South Africa A gay West Rand man has been brutally murdered, and possibly raped, in Westonaria in an apparent hate crime. The body of…
Anti-gay rights crusade in Africa a distraction
2 1/2 years since it’s first reading in October 2009, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill full texthas once again been tabled in parliament. The bill was shelved in 2010 at which time President Yoweri Museveni warned those advocating for the Bill that it was…
Statements by Ugandan & African organisations against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
The following Ugandan and African human rights organisations have condemned the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill 20009: Ugandan Law Society. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill proposed to Parliament in 2009 would, if enacted into law, in its current state violate international human rights law…
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