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“I came out to a couple of them, and they mocked me, after which they decided it was prayers I needed,” Temi says. “And I tried to do just that. But the more I immersed myself in church activities, the more empty I felt. It lacked substance.”
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What happened to Chriton Atuhwera?
The 22-year-old Ugandan and Miriam Makeba lover was burned in Kenya for being gay.
A thread. ⬇️
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"Rest is political for feminists," says
@tastefullysaucy
on the feminist brunch in Uganda bringing together women & non binary activists to rest.
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Femme gay men have noted experiencing discrimination even within the LGBTQ+ community and less holistic representation in media, a new short film Country Love features a femme lead character in Nigeria where queer people face widespread homophobia.
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When Christian missionaries established schools in different parts of East Africa, they constructed the narrative that Black hair was unsightly, ungodly and untameable.
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Join
@nyapru1
,
@donmugs
&
@scamwesigye2
for a discussion tomorrow on “Rethinking the role of African feminism in ending violence against women & girls.”
Set reminder👇🏾
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“I wasn’t scared of being groped or that my drink would be spiked.”
For women in Nigeria where sexual harassment is predominant, strictly women parties offer some respite. The latest on
@MinorityAfrica
.
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28 women in Wakiso district were in 2017 murdered under mysterious and gruesome circumstances and for most of them, justice is yet to be served. But who were some of these women?
#16Days
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“Queer people have been told they are a distraction to the
#ENDSARS
movement and that it is not our time. The idea that we always have to postpone our liberation is problematic. Here’s why.” Writes
@vicw0nder
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Raihanatu Sali is the first ever Mbororo news anchor on Cameroon’s national television, where she is dispelling stereotypes about the indigenous community. The Mbororo are mostly known to be nomadic pastoralists making up less than 2 million of Cameroon's 25 million population.
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Uganda recently annulled four sections of it’s Anti-Pornography Act. Passed in 2014, the controversial law criminalised any activity deemed pornographic, from wearing short skirts to writing risque songs. We spoke to
@KanyomozRabwoni
about this.
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Despite the seminal place Ìfẹ̀ will hold in Nollywood, its creators (
@equality_hub
) will not allow it to be termed a “queer’’ movie.
“When you watch a movie with heterosexual people, do you call it a heterosexual movie?”
@UzoamakaAniunoh
asks.
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Being queer and able to express yourself is a privilege many don't have, especially in Uganda. People fear judgment, backlash and bullying. But when you decide that the world will get whatever you give her, that's the most freeing choice.
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An online TV in Uganda broadcasting entirely in sign language is improving access by deaf persons to media content in the country where they are often excluded from mainstream media programming.
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We’re so excited to introduce our Managing Editor,
@CalebOkereke
. Caleb Okereke is a Nigerian journalist working out of Kampala, Uganda. He has written and produced features for BBC, Aljazeera and Deutsche Welle. Caleb is a 2019
@IMChallengeug
,
@onewm
and a
@soljourno
fellow.
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Everyday, Amarachi Nickabugu shares a discriminatory law against women from across the world.
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📣Happening tomorrow at 7pm (EAT).
Let’s join
@ENabunya
,
@PeshPoni
,
@KhananiDaniella
&
@FrauenUG
as we discuss “How do learning institutions perpetuate and sustain violence against women?”.
📍Set your reminder here:
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Meet our Data Editor
@thefaridaadamu
. A Data Analyst, Writer and Social Entrepreneur. Farida spends her time turning opinions to Data at
@researcherdotng
, while using data to report global Elections at
@ElectionNetwork
. She features occasionally on
@StearsBusiness
.
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Does this title say anything about Uganda’s precious children who are the pretext these politicians were using to bring up the bill?
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🔔 Applications are now open for Cohort 2 of The Minority Africa fellowship.
This is a six-month paid & virtual training for journalists/storytellers representing various minority communities on the African continent. 👇🏾
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For several years, LGBTQ+ people in Kenya have reported targeted anti-gay violence.
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Colonialists recast themselves as saviors in the conversation of homophobia in Africa; a stance that attempts to absolve them of the role they play(ed) in spreading this homophobia.
Decolonization must factor this.
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We are so excited to announce the launch of the Minority Africa Fellowship! A six month virtual & paid reporting fellowship targeting journalists/storytellers from minority communities in Africa. Watch this video for more info. Retweet and apply here:
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In March 2024,
#SethNoToGays
trended on Kenyan Twitter but was the trend coincidental or the result of a coordinated campaign?
This video is done in collaboration with
@INENDorg
.
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🎉We are delighted to invite you to our first ever Town Hall, where we will be discussing key topics to help you succeed in your writing journey with Minority Africa.
Let’s meet
@CalebOkereke
,
@ernienweke
&
@eliza_okwach
.
Save a seat here:
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“[In Nigeria] women [are] unable to pass their citizenship to their husbands.”
Everyday,
@a_nickabugu
shares a discriminatory law against women from across the world, raising awareness about laws like this.
#iwd
#IWD2021
#GenerationEquality
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We are delighted to introduce the 2023 Minority Africa Fellowship Cohort 2!
From Cameroon, South Africa, Nigeria, Namibia, Kenya, Nigeria & Uganda, they are passionate storytellers with a mission: to amplify the voices of marginalized communities across Africa! ✊
👉Swipe to
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🎉We are thrilled to announce the launch of our esteemed editorial board, bringing together a diverse group of experts to ensure the highest quality content for our readers.
Swipe to see more about their expertise👇🏽
#MinorityAfricaEditorialBoard
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I cannot [live] uncomfortably for the comfort of oppressors, society, religion, or culture. I refuse.
Queer people should refuse oppression and also look out for each other. When one queer person is oppressed, we are all oppressed.
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📖TikTok's hate speech detectors do not appear to as effectively remove videos that contain anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech in Luganda – the most spoken language in Uganda’s capital.
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Converting books into accessible digital formats for blind and visually impaired people is illegal in Nigeria. Years after a United Nations treaty was ratified to address that, it is yet to be domesticated into Nigerian law. We decided to find out why.
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We are looking for multimedia journalists in North and Southern Africa to join our freelance pool. We are expanding our coverage to include countries in these regions and want to build a network of skilled writers, photographers, and videographers.
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We’re tired of platforms that exist to “give a voice to the voiceless” and of orgs working with minorities hoping to give them a voice—this notion is problematic for many reasons. But 1st cos it lacks agency. No one is voiceless, at best you mic them but they have been speaking.
“There's really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” —Arundhati Roy
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“I don’t owe anyone an explanation for my sexuality.”
For Lesbian Visibility Day this year, we asked four lesbians from across Africa what visibility means to them.
#lesbianvisibilityday
#lesbianvisibilityweek
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Most notably,
@ZikhonaTshona
’s work in journalism has been that of advocacy and to work to find solutions to problems South Africans face.
#MinorityAfricaEditorialBoard
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On January 4, 2023, Edwin’s body was found stashed in a metal box along the Kipkenyo-Kaptinga road in Kenya. Maybe, as is alleged, the murder of Edwin was a case of intimate partner violence..
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My first struggle as a kid was as a one-day-old baby fighting to stay alive. My mom had me and unfortunately, she over-bled and passed on that very day. My aunts and my cousin took me under their wings and the rest of my growing up happened in my cousin’s house.
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Femme gay men have noted experiencing discrimination even within the LGBTQ+ community, with media portrayal of them often relying on tropes and stereotypes. A new movie wants to change that. 1/2
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We're looking for women illustrators from across Africa to work with us on select projects. Deadline is May 10th. Are you or do you know a suitable person? More info here:
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Minority Africa wants to read your pitches.
Writers, journalists, and filmmakers, send us pitches for solutions based stories on African minorities. We’ve put together a guide to tell you all you need to know about pitching us, please read and pitch!!
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LGBTQ+ people in South Africa are being excluded from the ongoing census. While the country has some of the most progressive laws on LGBTQ+ rights on the continent, its ongoing census omits crucial information about gender identity and sexual orientation. 1/2
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You have only 48 hours left to apply and join our team as an editorial intern. Come volunteer with a team that is dedicated to reframing media coverage of African minorities.
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We are an online publication using data-driven multimedia journalism to tell minority stories from across Africa. We cover women, sexual, gender, ethnic, & religious minorities, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, & persons with disabilities using solutions journalism. Follow us!
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🧵In 2021, Anena joined Big Fix Uganda. In the beginning, she wanted counselling services. During the sessions, she was paired with Peyot, a dog which was also going through trauma of its own.
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Akon City camouflages as being “for Africans” but its model displaces indigenous and minoritized people to cater to capitalist institutions.
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18 year old Evangel Ganiyu reported an on campus sexual assault case to Anchor University in Nigeria. The university is alleged to have arrested her instead.
▶️ to watch full video.
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🚀First was our stellar Editorial Board, now we are beyond excited to introduce the outstanding individuals who are now part of our esteemed Advisory Board at Minority Africa.
🌟 Join us in welcoming these luminaries whose influence will resonate through the works of Minority
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Happy
#BrailleDay
| Remember
#Braille
has the power to feel the words which can't be felt through the normal letters
Read
@OpeAdetayo1
's article , ‘A book famine’: In Nigeria, copyright laws mean visually impaired people can’t access many books here
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For our followers in Nigeria, a solutions journalism tour is coming your way. You know we are passionate about
#SOJO
and a
#SoJoTour
is all our dreams come through. Get in touch with
@alagboso
to request a tour in your city. Follow
@soljourno
and
@nighealthwatch
for updates.
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Perhaps the most problematic thing about White people like
@JonnyGeller
categorizing African and Black voices as “unheard” is that it attempts to exonerate the West and White people like Geller of the role they play in “unhearing.”
Our latest editorial.
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📖Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist musical film that follows coltan mine workers who escape and meet other outcasts to find a community in an abandoned village named Digitaria.
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We are excited to announce the 2022 inaugural Minority Africa fellows. The six fellows come from South Sudan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria, and Namibia and will complete a six month program. Read about this cohort here:
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We love this quote from
@Nimisire
. Oppressors thrive on your SILENCE and often times on your COMPLACENCE too. This can get even trickier in media spaces where one is supposed to be objective. Would objectivity mean amplifying the voice of your oppressors?
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In Uganda, women are forming fishing groups for safety and protection. The widely male dominated fishing industry poses a challenge for women who participate in it as they are exposed to various forms of abuse and violence, these groups want to prevent that. 1/2
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Lumumba was sexually assaulted, hit on the head with a blunt object and stabbed in the chest, face, neck, and one of their eyes was partially gorged out. Their death on the 17th of April 2022 sparked calls for justice in Kenya where homosexuality remains illegal.
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We're looking for an Editorial Intern to join our team at Minority Africa. This is a volunteer position and remote. Apply by March 15th.
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🧵Alone, Sheila Adhiambo Lumumba, a 25-year old non-binary lesbian lay dead in their one-bedroom apartment in a small town, north of Nairobi, for three days before finally being discovered.👇🏽
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Happy
#IWD2024
!
On this International Women's Day, we recognize African women who have been the driving force behind progress from the colonial era to the present day. Their strength has built nations and their voices have influenced change.
#InspireInclusion
#InvestInWomen
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We are so excited to tell you about our new project, “Advance" which is Africa's first collaborative news agency for minority stories and is funded by Google News Initiative. 👇🏾
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🤝14 fellows
🚀2 cohorts
🌍Over 30 countries in Africa
What truly comes next?
Stay tuned!
#2024MinorityAfricaFellowship
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When you engage with minorities on a level of “giving them a voice,” you strip them of their ability to be the main actors in their own story and make yourself the central character. You strip them both of their humanity and of their agency. Your platform is not THE VOICE.
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🔊The call for interested journalists, writers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, with provable work experience in their fields and are at least 18 years of age is still on.
🤝The
#2024MinorityAfricaFellowship
is accepting applications till the 19th of July, 2024.
Visit this
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Amidst coronavirus fears, Nigeria’s pregnant women turn to remote consultation and online groups
Read our latest piece on how women try to find balance between pregnancy and a pandemic.
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For Transgender Day Of Remembrance this year, we turn to Africa where trans people continue to be exposed to various forms of violence.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives tragically in acts of anti-transgender violence.
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Over the last few days, Nigerians in have taken to the streets and to social media to call for the disbandment of a notorious police unit, SARS with the
#ENDSARS
. We created this infographic to help you understand the movement and how you can HELP.
#EndPoliceBrutalitynow
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We partnered with
@FrauenUG
,
@mcimediahub
and
@FrenchEmbassyUg
to train journalists on reporting about GBV.
The training sought to equip participants with a diverse array of methodological journalism approaches that extend beyond the portrayal of GBV as mere acts of violence.
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Hello everyone,
I’d like to welcome you to
#MinorityAfricaLearn
. My name is Caleb Okereke and for the next hour, I will be tweeting as Minority Africa. Learn is our tweet chat series where we create space to have conversations about minority reporting and solutions journalism.
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On
#WorldPressFreedomDay
, we remind you of this quote by Maya Angelou. There is no press freedom if our stories as journalists keep out minorities, there is no press freedom if our stories include them in ways that are dehumanizing or condescending. Our freedom is interlinked.
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Thanks to everyone who applied to our 1st cohort of the 2022 Minority Africa Fellowship. We received over 230 applications & our team of reviewers will spend the next few weeks thoroughly reading them. Applicants can expect to hear back in May. Updates:
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The police is not a friend to queer people in Uganda. It’s so easy to use queer people as a scapegoat for people's anger towards the state.
It was around midnight...We were at the back of the bar when we just saw a surge of people coming and I turned to [my friend], and I said,
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For Disability Pride Month in July, we collaborated with
@DiverseEmpower
to speak to seven individuals who share their experiences navigating live as a person with disability in Uganda.
▶️Watch full video on our YouTube page:
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✉️You are invited!
On the 6th of February at 7pm (EAT), join this conversation on “Exploring the role of the internet in facilitating GBV” with
@tastefullysaucy
,
@ImaniMulungi
&
@PeshAhumuza
.
Partners:
@FrenchEmbassyUg
&
@FrauenUG
.
Save a seat here:
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Majority of persons with albinism die from skin cancer between thirty to forty years; this beauty pageant in Uganda wants to change that.
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Join us for an interesting fireside chat on the 26th of January at 6:00pm (EAT) hosted by Deepshikha Parmessur, Operations and Fellowship Manager
@MinorityAfrica
.
We will have fellows from Cohort 1 on this discussion, lock in your calendar here:
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‘“No Homo,” “Shoving it down our throats,” and other word choices in which reiterating sexual orientation and heteronormativity can be homophobic. ‘
Read the latest in our abolishing oppressive language series edited by
@Kakatshozi_
&
@theprincelyx
.
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“To blame queer people who are not able to be as visible for their own invisibility is to absolve the system that sustains the need for them to stay hidden in the first place”, writes our Sexual Minorities Editor
@kakatshozi_
.
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Through the month of July, our Language Series will delve into the history and connotations of our seemingly “everyday language” and how they cause or sustain harm.
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“You keep thinking… How did they die? Are they dead? Were they washed down the drain? Were they dropped in an ocean? Did they tie them to a rope? What really happened?”
Families of Nigerians missing in police custody want closure.
#EndSARS
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On the first episode of our podcast launched in partnership with
@FrenchEmbassyUg
,
@KaragwaR
joins us to shed light on the challenges
#women
face around dressing and
#sexualviolence
in Uganda and beyond.
Listen: or on channels where you get your podcasts.
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As they navigate through marriage, Sarah and Betty, two Ugandan women who are deaf, share their experiences on the challenges of communication, cultural expectations and the negative perceptions from society.
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'There is no Judgment': A look
inside Uganda's LGBTQ+ inclusive church.
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"They are willing to give us rights as long as we don’t visibly exist," says
@cassroxburgh
on LGBTQ+ South Africans being excluded from the 2022 census. 2/2
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Nasser Zefzafi became known for being one of the most outspoken activists during the Riffian revolts that took place in Morocco from 2016 to 2017. But his bravery came with a price for him and for his family.
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🔊Major shoutout to all applicants.
📍Applications came in from 18 countries including Zimbabwe, Liberia, Egypt, Tanzania, Namibia, Malawi, Mauritius, Somalia, Zambia, Burundi, DRC, Tunisia and Rwanda.
🔔We’d reach out shortly to all applicants. Stay tuned for more updates.
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“Participating in the Minority Africa Fellowship was a pivotal experience in my development as a storyteller.” - Bana Mwesige, 2024 Minority Africa Fellow.
Bana shares their experience and how the fellowship transformed their career.
Applications for the new cohort are
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“It is exhausting being on guard every minute.”
For women in Nigeria where sexual harassment is predominant, strictly women parties offer some respite.
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What drives these passionate individuals?
Our amazing
#2023MinorityAfricaFellowship
Cohort 2 shares what inspired them to join our program!
Don't miss out on their incredible journeys - play to watch the full video.
#2023MinorityAfricaFellows
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We’re at the launch of The Futures Project by
@dw_akademie
and
@IMChallengeug
looking to foster
#MediaViability
in East Africa. Here’s Eva Georgia giving the keynote address on the role of technological transformation in media viability.
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Our Executive Editor,
@CalebOkereke
and our Growth & Partnership Manager,
@shameerramdin
joined over 30 stakeholders at the Africa Partners Convening in Nairobi, Kenya 🤝
This event brought together
@luminategroup
partners from across Africa to connect, share ideas, and drive
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Amid a backdrop of a brutal civil war, potential of the language going extinct & more recent calls for secession, Centre for Memories is forging a future for Nigeria’s Igbos that is rooted in a recollection and an understanding of the past.
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Natural hair as "unprofessional," discriminatory hair policies in schools, and how media representation influences hair politics. We asked four women in Uganda these questions.
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In 2023, a Kenyan TV posted a viral video on Facebook alleging that the Kenyan parliament had passed an anti LGBTQ law. This week, we look back at that post and the context manipulation around it in the face of newer anti-LGBT legislation proposed across the continent.
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A community radio station within the Mau Forest Complex in Kenya teaches Ogiek, preventing the language and culture from going extinct.
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Queer suffering is serially platformed and disproportionately critically acclaimed across a range of media forms. A new book wants to change that.
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In Laikipia county in northern Kenya, initiatives are being put in place to rescue the vanishing Yaakuntee language and traditions. In the year 2020, Yaakunte was declared among the critically endangered languages in Kenya by UNESCO.
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We have our first ever
#MinorityAfricaLearn
Tweetchat with BBC journalist
@DinaAboughazala
this week. With over 10 years of experience at the BBC, Dina has worked in Addis, London, and Cairo, covering Arabic media stories, Middle East politics as well as jihadist groups. Join in!
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