It Is Time: The need to rethink homosexuality in #Kenya and Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/07/it-is-time-the-need-to-rethink-homosexuality-in-kenya-and-africa
“This is personal for me.” ~President #Obama on his visit to Kenya. The near rabid response surrounding the speculation that President Obama would address #gay_rights on his first visit.....
#Morocco jails six men accused of homosexuality
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/morocco-jails-six-men-accused-homosexuality
A Moroccan court has jailed six men for up to three years on various charges including “homosexuality,” a rights group told AFP on Wednesday. The Moroccan government is led by a moderate Islamist party. Gay sex is illegal, punishable by a maximum three years in prison in the North African country. The six defendants were convicted on Monday of accusations ranging from “homosexuality, inciting prostitution, mediating in prostitution and being drunk in public,” said Ahmed Amin Chaabi, from the Moroccan League for the Defense of Human Rights. read more
News from #Nigeria
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I told my son that he would get his first sense of things as soon as we boarded the flight. Planes bound for #Lagos, I told him, were filled with black people and not just in economy but in first and business class too. Lagos, capital of the Black Atlantic and megacity of nearly twenty […]
#OPINION #PHOTOGRAPHY #gay_rights #Goodluck_Jonathan #homosexuality #Mallam_Sanusi_Lamido #NoViolet_Bulawayo #Uganda #Youssou_N'Dour
#Watch Binyavanga’s brilliant YouTube #documentary calling out the BS behind “African” #homophobia
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We’ve been looking forward to this one. When our friends at the Guardian and BBC (and plenty of other outlets) finally reported on Binyavanga Wainaina’s wonderful essay yesterday, we learned that he had a documentary up his sleeve as well. And here it is, in six witty, moving, thoughtful, hilarious, essential, truthful parts — “We Must Free […]
#General #HISTORY #Hot_News #MEDIA #OPINION #PALAVER #VIDEO #Binyavanga_Wainaina #gay_rights #Goodluck_Jonathan #Kenya #Nigeria #We_Must_Free_Our_Imaginations