Africa

Moses Foh-Amoaning wants Ghana to force "gay conversion therapy" on anyone convicted of violating its anti-homosexuality law. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)
Ghana: 400 sign up for bogus ‘cure’ of homosexuality
Nigerian activist aims to take down anti-gay law
Gay Games 1: Uganda will host the Gay Games some day?
Douglas Mawadri, founder of Associated for Health Rights Uganda. (Photo courtesy of Douglas Mawadri)
How can LGBTI activists avoid burnout and depression?
Blood, symbolizing the wounds, physical and emotional, of queer Africans, and the boxes that people, queer and straight, put themselves and others in, are the main visual motifs of Lesh Maseng’s radical dance piece G.A.Y. (Photo courtesy of Endotica.org)
LGBT dance artist steps forward in Botswana
Homophobic Catholic leader bids farewell to Uganda
Nigerian candidate sounded tolerant, but he’s homophobic
Kikonyogo Kivumbi (right) at his first meeting the Country Coordinating Mechanism board in 2015, where he represented LGBTI people, men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers and intravenous drug users. At left is his elected alternate, Jude Ayebare.
Uganda honors the work of this blog’s activist writer
Location of Bafoussam in Cameroon. (Map courtesy of Wikipedia)
Anti-gay Cameroon landlord fails to evict gay tenant
State police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal: The raid was based on information from a "reliable source." (Photo courtesy of Vanguard News)
Nigeria: ‘Preposterous’ rationale for 57 gay arrests
Archbishop Stanley Ntagali greets at Entebbe Airport on his return from England on Jan. 16. (Photo courtesy of the Church of Uganda)
Uganda: Homophobic archbishop will retire
Yaounde street scene (Photo from multiple online sources)
Cameroon: two men kiss in public. Result: a beating
Protesters in London demand an end to repression in Uganda and the release of singer and opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, whose stage name is Bobi Wine. (Photo courtesy of the African Equality Foundation)
500 protesters demand freedom for activist singer
Three sketches represent the three gay prisoners at Yaoundé's central prison. Cameras are not allowed in the prison.
Cameroon: Blog readers again help feed 3 gay inmates
Poster seeks the release of Bobi Wine (Ugandan member of parliament Robert Kyagulanyi)
Protesters: Uganda must free tortured activist singer
This policeman entraps and blackmails gay Nigerians