A traditional Yoruba talking drum lying on earthy brown ground. Its body is wrapped in bright rainbow-colored lines with faint African-inspired patterns. A single curved drumstick rests beside it.

“Allyship needs to be loud”: Afrobeats’ uneasy relationship with queerness

A young mother cradling her newborn at the center, surrounded by three women forming a circular embrace.
The Women Filling Rural Zimbabwe’s Maternal Care Gap
They stayed in a ‘communal’ Nigerian city and built a home for queer art
They stayed in a ‘communal’ Nigerian city and built a home for queer art
The scientist who robbed the Kalahari of its dead
A young girl in a tattered school uniform fashioned like a wedding dress. She walks hand-in-hand with a translucent ghost soldier.
“Revenge Wives”: The Girls in Mozambique Paying the Price of a Bygone War
Read About Us
Write/Report for Us
Get in touch

Popular

Description: A collage of grainy pink and purple halftone portraits of young men whose faces are partially obscured with cutouts of other people. Layered behind them are fragments of online messages about love and money.
“We touch bros but we no gay”: The hidden intimacies of Ghana’s fraud boys
Description: 2 Black queer figures dancing in an underground rave. They are both wearing outfits that are reminiscent of the early 2000s Nollywood era. One figure in the foreground wears a pink shirt and large neon-yellow hoop earrings. The second figure, partially facing forward, wears a lime green beanie, dark sunglasses, and vibrant pink hair.
“It’s incredibly frustrating”: Queer Lagosians made alté cool. Now they’re being pushed out
A woman wearing a patterned headwrap and a dress made out of newspaper clippings, embraces a younger woman in white. They stand against a lush mountain backdrop under a bright sky, evoking warmth and support.
They survived a disease few ever do. Then the hard part began
They said it was just another murder. But her father refuses to let it be forgotten

Law & Inclusion

A cross-section of soil with several green sprouts emerging, including one that looks like a musical treble clef, 2 that are shaped like human heads, and 3 regular looking plants at the top.
Kenya outlawed the sharing of indigenous seeds; an unlikely village choir is fighting back
3 women glowing against a red grunge background next to an open purple-coloured glowing door bearing the Purple Door Initiatives logo, revealing a sunny relaxing environment.
Behind every purple door in this Zimbabwean community, someone is ready to assist women facing abuse
A humanised version of the female symbol being bound at the mouth and in tears, and surrounded by a maze-like structure in Uganda’s national colors.
“I endured in silence”: Deaf women in Uganda and their struggle with abusive relationships
One Ethiopia, One Culture, One Religion: The Isolation of Queer Tigrayans
One Ethiopia, One Culture, One Religion: The Isolation of Queer Tigrayans

Editor's Picks

A young queer couple sharing an embrace in a glass box surrounded by floating eyes.
Is my love queer enough for you?
“A game changer”: How a Kenyan radio station is reviving a dying indigenous language
In northern Uganda, war survivors and comfort dogs are “healing together.”
Edwin-Chiloba
Edwin Chiloba, my first love

Watch

Dual Life

View All
A jigsaw puzzle in the form of a transwoman with a few pieces scattered across the image and a crimson-colored background.
She was bullied for attending a women-only event as a trans woman. It was not the first time
A crossdresser in a village in Northern Nigeria
The ‘Yan Daudu’ dilemma: Navigating a pre-Islamic queer identity in the modern world
A man wearing a cross necklace with pride colors at the left and jail bars at the right.
I sang in the choir, frequented a gay bar and it landed me in prison
(L-R) Jesus, a nun and a masculine presenting woman all holding hands. The nun in the middle is split into two with one half wearing a habit and the other half wearing regular clothing.
From holy celibacy to secret lesbian marriage
Deaf women in Uganda and their struggles with abusive relationships.
Now Playing
Deaf women in Uganda and their struggles with abusive relationships.
Now Playing
Dangerous stages: Gendered harassment in Uganda’s music industry
Now Playing
In northern Uganda, war survivors and comfort dogs are “healing together.”
View All Videos

By our Fellows

View All
An open casket lowered in the ground, revealing a man in a blue suit made out of Ugandan shillings.

“Who saves for death?’: Where funeral costs break families, a village burial society offers another way

Image Description: An open casket lowered in the ground, revealing a man in a blue suit made out of Ugandan shillings. Kamwenge, Uganda (Minority Africa) —On a sun-drenched February afternoon, mourners gathered…

Description: A large tree with roots of different pride colors underground. Some of these colored roots blend into the more natural-looking color of the tree trunk.
“My family of choice”: Queer Nigerians are moving from conventional to chosen families, but is it always enough?
GIGA members meet weekly to save for their group project. Here, they met at the secretary's home. Photo credit_ Jamie Intwari
“A big gamble”: Inside a savings group for refugees living with a disability in Uganda
Participants at the Genocide Memorial Stone before starting with the cleanings.
“They died for us”: The people tending to the graves of Namibia’s colonial genocide victims
“Cloud”: The Ugandan dancer stunting his way to acceptance

Our Newsletter

View All

Longreads

The left side of the image features a maze shaped like a chat bubble with the trail of a miniature person and the Grindr logo walking into a black-and-white mask. The right side of the image features the back view a more realistic looking nude man bearing scars and holding a gun to his head with his right hand. All against red-and-black image of Lagos city skyline.
“I have forgiven him”: Queer Nigerian victims of online blackmail turn to reconciliation and vigilante justice
A portrait of Sheila Lumumba
What did Sheila Lumumba want?
I donated my egg in Nigeria. Here’s what I found out
‘There is no Judgment’: A look inside Uganda’s LGBTQ+ inclusive church

For your eyes only

A patient standing in a hospital hallway between two doors—one marked with the male symbol and the other with the female symbol. The patient appears translucent, revealing the intersex flag painted on the wall where a door should be.
“He asked if I was a man or woman”: Kenya’s intersex people vs. its healthcare system
“My personal secret”: Accessing family planning beyond religious boundaries in Zimbabwe
Being queer in south sudan
A story of me: Being queer in North Sudan
The Table Community
“It attracted me”: Inside a fellowship for non religious Nigerians