Africa: Queer Film in Africa Is Rising – Even in Countries With the Harshest Anti-LGBTIQ+ Laws
[The Conversation Africa] A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and means within the context of…
Tanzania: Using Art and Animation to Strike Down Female Genital Mutilation in Tanzania
[UNFPA] Glory Charles Mlagwa, 25, is a medical expert and public health specialist. She is the winner of the 2022 Spotlight Initiative-supported FGM (female genital mutilation) Hackathon, which invests in new ideas and technology to end FGM. This is he…
South Africa: UCT Honours Anti-Apartheid Poet Keith Gottschalk
[UCT] Protest, prison, humour and hope were recurring themes that emerged during a high tea event hosted by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Development and Alumni Department (DAD) in honour of the life and work of UCT alumnus and anti-apartheid poe…
Algeria: The Hirak Is Dead, Truth Is the Enemy, the People Are the Traitors
[African Arguments] In the new logic of repression, all evidence of the 2019 uprising must be eliminated, the first targets being the journalists, writers and artists that used to gather at a literary café in Aokas.
Rwanda: ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Icon Rusesabagina Says Prison Was ‘Hell’
[DW] Dissident Paul Rusesabagina thanked the US for its efforts to release him from prison earlier this year. His made new criticisms of the Rwandan government in a video to mark the 61st anniversary of Rwanda’s independence.
Ethiopia: Oroma Musican’s Widow Decries Lack of Justice For His Assassination Three Years Ago
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba — The widow of artist Hachalu Hundessa who was assassinated on 29 June, 2020, Fantu Damisew said justice has not been served and she doesn’t know who killed him three years after his death. Fantu who is currently board cha…
Sierra Leone: African Leaders in Sierra Leone Played a Key Role in Ending the Transatlantic Slave Trade
[The Conversation Africa] Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves who were returned to Africa by British members of the movement to end slavery. Founded in 1787 by a group of 400 black Britons fro…