Jamel Buhari: The Unrecognized Complexities of Queer Migration
Jamel Buhari is an Amsterdam-based Dutch-Ghanaian researcher and community organizer. He is currently finalizing his PhD...
Gay Bars and Dating Sites: Queer Nigerian Migrants on Finding Love
For 27-year-old Paul, finding love and exploring his sexuality as a queer Nigerian came to him...
Surviving Uganda's Anti-Gay Law While Outed, Exiled, & Mourning
Uganda's anti gay law has some of the strictest punishments for being gay and for gay organising (activism and creating community for gay people) in the world. With punishments as severe as life imprisonment for "engaging in acts of homosexuality" and 20 years jail time for "promoting homosexuality",
Away from Home: Ghana's Homophobia Employs a Calculated Media War
They did not catch me having sex or in any compromising position. Someone asked me, no, accused me, of being homosexual, and I said, 'Yes, that I was homosexual.' And the school suspended me.
Is Homophobia Chasing LGBTQ+ Africans Away to the US?
In America, E quickly learned that there was very little wholesome space for femme men (LGBTQ+) who are not willing to pander to socio-cultural norms of how a guy should dress, walk, talk, or gesticulate in the black community.