This weeks Pambazuka News has a special Women's issues focusing on the last 15 years since Beijing Platform for Action and the future for women's rights on the continent. The essays cover securing women's rights, gender and conflict, what has been...

Violent suppression of initiatives we cannot understand or even deaths in the African Diaspora as well as the African LGBTI set us back for generations but worse still is the hypocrisy and corruption that blinds us to this fact. Why? When you kill a...

From Gender DynamiX This Friday Daisy Dube will be remembered. Daisy was shot and killed in Yeoville in 2008 because of her gender identity. She and three drag queens out for the night stopped and asked three men in a car to stop calling them...

I feel so proud and over joyed to be writing this post today. In spite of the struggle against transphobia and homophobia two exciting ground breaking pieces of work are happening in Africa which celebrate Transgender lives on the continent. The...

Kayode Ogundamisi posted this note on Facebook commenting on the Lagos State Government's "Rambo" raid on private nightclubs. The club dancers were dehumanised and photographed in the nude by security forces with the photos being sent to the press. ...