LGBTQ Africans

While challenges remain, including an ongoing case for marriage equality, the repeal marks a huge step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in Botswana.

In conservative Hausa communities, some men known as yan daudu marry women while continuing relationships with men. For their wives—often young and with little power to leave—these marriages continue, even after discovery.

In a conversation with OkayAfrica, Saleh delves into their Sudanese heritage and how it helps them use music as a tool to release grief and maintain hope.

A government that wants to lead on reparative justice for slavery while legislating modern oppression is vulnerable. Why isn't the queer movement exploiting the contradiction?

At a time when conditions are becoming more restrictive for LGBTQ+ people in some parts of Africa, the Republic of Botswana has taken an important step in protecting LGBTQ+ rights by officially removing old colonial-era laws that banned same-sex relationships from its statute books.