Africa

Jann Halexander
Musician Jann Halexander reflects on being queer in Gabon
The challenge of coming out in Nigeria. (Illustration courtesy of Minority Africa)
Coming out in Nigeria is a difficult journey
Cameroon-LGBTI-and-children-report
Queer Cameroonians speak out about desire to become parents
Map of the 65 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them.
LGBTQ rights update: 2025 tally and 2026 preview
Group Therapy nightclub scene in Lagos, Nigeria (Photo courtesy of Instagram)
Queer Lagosians made alté cool. Now they’re being pushed out.
Evariste Ndayishimiye, president of Burundi. (Photo courtesy of Africa News)
Spotlight on Burundi, where the president wants gays to be stoned
Senegal Serigne Kosso Mbacke Courtesy of Senenews
Senegal: 11 men convicted of ‘unnatural acts’, 11 others awaiting trial
Veteran LGBTI rights attorney Alice Nkom remains locked in a legal dispute with Cameroonian authorities who accuse her of “financing terrorism” — a charge she vehemently denies, declaring that her principled stand is in defense of the rule of law in Cameroon.
2025 LGBTQ rights update: African activists resist growing repression
Spotlight on Egypt: Repression, discrimination, online entrapment
Anita Among, speaker of Uganda's parliament
Backlash against Uganda Parliament Speaker over homophobic remarks
Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2016 (David Becker photo courtesy of Reuters)
Annus Horribilis: After the grim revelations of 2025, what next?
Uganda urged to repeal anti-gay law to combat HIV
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , who signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act into law in May 2023. (Photo courtesy of the BBC)
Uganda LGBTQI advocacy groups denounce human rights abuses
Map of Senegal shows the capital, Dakar. (Map courtesy of AFP)
Anti-gay police crackdown expands in Senegal
Mame Mactar Gueye, vice president of Jamra in Senegal (Photo courtesy of TMF)
Senegal imprisons 10 men for ‘unnatural acts’
Flag of Cameroon
In Cameroon, a trans woman cries out for dignity and survival