This year promises, or threatens, to be equally busy. This week, leading Cameroonian LGBT rights activist Eric Ohena Lembembe was found tortured and murdered. These are urgent times in Cameroon, as noted today at Africa Is a Country, and Alice Nkom, as ever, is in the thick of the urgencies.
Tweet + The evangelical churches responsible for driving homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia and the USA have begun a campaign of violence and hate in Haiti. On Friday, an all faith coalition of homophobic haters called [The Haitian Coalition of…
Tweet More on pèpè and Haitian textiles – Tate Watkins At Humanosphere, Tom Murphy provides the latest in a smattering of recent articles and posts about the secondhand clothes market in Haiti, and textile production. He focuses on some of…
Tweet > If we are to keep the enormity of the forces aligned against us from establishing a false hierarchy of oppression, we must school ourselves to recognize that any attack against Blacks, any attack against women, is an attack…
Tweet Open season on black boys after a verdict like this | Gary Younge | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Appeals for calm in the wake of such a verdict raise the question of what calm there can possibly be…
No, I don’t mean to ignore Bessie’s struggles, her anguish or her pain. But it gets to a point where one needs to know: was she happy somewhere, sometime? Did she laugh out loud, often? There is a picture of Bessie Head with her arms outstretched and she appears to be laughing with abandon. Where these moments of openness frequent?
I think I found the answers in Tales of Tenderness and Power. Quite presumptuous of me, but what is an adoring reader to do?
The marking of Haitians as carriers of AIDS goes back to the early 1980s when the “Center for Disease Control [CDC], identified four high-risk groups, known pejoratively as the 4-H club – “homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin users and Haitiansâ€. This was the first time a disease was tied to a nationality but not the first time black bodies have been tied to racist notions of deviance and contagion and of being a threat to whiteness.
Tweet From the Mail & Guardian, Phumi Mtetwa discusses Nelson Mandela’s role in facilitating LGBTI rights in South Africa through encouraging dialogue. However his contribution fell short as failed upset the social and economic structures at the core of inequality….
Tweet rules of the black panther party | mark jacobs lives! http://africasacountry.com/summer-reading-list/ Everything I’ve heard and read about François-Xavier Fauvel-Aymar’s Le Rhinocéros d’Or tells me I’m going to love it… The author is a French historian who specializes in medieval…
During the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the impact of 20+ years of vital core support from Global Fund for Women played out in a big way. It helped build strong networks of women’s rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa, enabling women like Hoda and Mozn Hassan to mobilize quickly and lead during turbulent times. Today, these are the networks demanding democracy in their country today and standing against rape and violence as an intimidation tactic.
“This is the place where the first lesbian was killed here in Thokoza, we are gathered here to express our animosity towards this placeâ€, said Sister A, who is member of Ihawu, a Lesbian organisation working in Kathorus (Katlehong, Thokoza and Vosloorus) when she addressed the hyped up group.
“We are marching in honour of our fallen lesbian sisters, for the spirit of Duduzile Zozo and Nokuthula Radebe.
Tweet From inkanyiso – Another young black lesbian murdered. Duduzile Zozo, a 26 year old from Thokoza, East of Johannesburg was murdered on 30th June, 2013. Daily Sun, a local tabloid newspaper reported that, “The 26-year-old’s half-naked body was found…
Late on 3 July, a number of civics in Egypt including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies described the mass uprising as “tantamount to a genuine popular referendum by which the majority of Egyptians rejected all policies seeking to undermine rights and liberties in the name of empowering a single political faction to monopolise state institutions, undermine the rule of law and judicial bodies, disregard court orders, harass and prosecute political opponents, and restrict the media and freedom of opinion and expression.â€
Tweet Pan-Africanism: Beyond Survival to Renaissance? | openDemocracy The fact is that after 50 years African’s millions are not happy. The date tells us our celebrations are due, but the data caution us. I appeal to you to stay alert…
Seven men will be sentenced for 43 offences – ranging from rape and conspiracy to rape to supplying Class A drugs to using an instrument to procure a miscarriage – against six underage girls. But what about the police officers and social workers whose refusal to act enabled these rapes? Will they be prosecuted for aiding and abetting rape? Were they involved in other ways? Is that why they didn’t act against rape? Or is it their bias against working class children and against rape victims generally?
Tweet Brad Pitt-Produced ‘Big Men’ Explores Greed in West African Oil Exploration | Movies News | Rolling Stone As the United States and other countries grapple with the issue of same-sex marriage, a new Pew Research Center survey finds huge…
Tweet INVITATION TO ATTEND AN EVENT EXPLORING AFRICA’S FUTURE As foreign countries increasingly become involved in Africa both commercially and militarily, young academics from across the continent debate fundamental questions about the dividend…
On Sunday a dream came true. Organized by Rea Dol, women from Le Phare in Jalouzi and SOPUDEP including volunteer nurses came together to provide the women of Canaan with their first mobile clinic. One hillside community coming to support women from another hillside community and together they climbed mount Canaan or as Jacques Roumain puts it
Tweet From Afro-Europe, a documentary “Hope in my Heart“, on the late Afro-German poet, May Ayim [in German and English] in which she speaks of her life, her poetry and racism in Germany. May Ayim’s father was Ghanian at the…
Tweet Linking news and action | … My heart’s in Accra These values aren’t in conflict so long as you accept a particular theory of change: give people information they need to see what’s wrong in the world, and they…
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