Category: TransinAfrika

        For the number of times days months years I have bit my tongue until I tasted blood just to please you here I am as a Transwoman

There’s power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it’s also a very visible one.

WE ARE HUMAN:  Ugandan Trans* refugees at Kenya’s Kakuma refugee Camp A group of twenty  resilient Ugandan trans* refugees at Kakuma camp, who  set up a social support, empowerment and wellbeing collective are now appealing […]

The new millennium ushered in many opportunities across the globe but for some, it also brought with it many woes.  During the same period, the narrative of  Zimbabweans escaping the decay in the country in […]

Namibian gender non-binary poet and activist Tangeni Vannezza Kauzuu has scored a first with her documentary SO Over the rainbow, young, black and Trans in Namibia. The film which premiered in commemoration of the Transgender Day of […]

On November 22 Zimbabweans woke up to a new era which saw the end of homophobic Robert Mugabe’s 37-year-old grip to power. Thousands of  Zimbabweans thronged the streets in celebration amongst them where many  LGBTI people  who  […]