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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 10/19/26: Dr. Arif Gamal on Nubian History, Displacement, and the Legacy of Colonialismhttps://youtu.be/Rtvi9hpSUzs?si=AKvO27jNDi43JgK4#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 10/19/26: Dr. Arif Gamal on Nubian History, Displacement, and the Legacy of Colonialism

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 10/12/26: Africa Today – Amílcar Cabral’s Liberation Schools and the Fight to Build a New Guinea-Bissau https://youtu.be/inLrVDmSJoA?si=BgldTFb4hV2jDnTS#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/117436571452386108

NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 10/12/26: Africa Today – Amílcar Cabral’s Liberation Schools and the Fight to Build a New Guinea-Bissau

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https://www.europesays.com/africa/470947/ Valdosta Sorority Helps Deliver Over 200 Pounds of School Supplies to Kenya #AfricanDiaspora #ArabianGulfAlumnaeChapter #CommunityService #DeltaSigmaThetaSorority #education #EducationalOutreach #ElnoraHill #GlobalCitizenship #InternationalAwareness #InternationalEducation #Kenya #LocalNews #MaasaiMara #OmegaPsiPhiFraternity #PackForAPurpose #SchoolSupplies #SouthGeorgia #TravelingTrunkInitiative #valdosta #ValdostaAlumnaeChapter

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 10/5/26https://youtu.be/ZBLnD93hd1A?si=R7RGCgcFRBnzOa2j#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 10/5/26

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 9/22/26: The apocalypse of settler colonialism ft. Gerald Hornehttps://youtu.be/w08IeauWehM?si=PcGbfQisHdeNWL8_#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 9/22/26: The apocalypse of settler colonialism ft. Gerald Horne

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 8/31/26: Amílcar Cabral’s Liberation Schools and the Fight to Build a New Guinea-Bissauhttps://youtu.be/Z_TyuhMN9dU?si=z3ZghX_pfqXXMCmf#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 8/31/26: Amílcar Cabral’s Liberation Schools and the Fight to Build a New Guinea-Bissau

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https://www.europesays.com/africa/413847/ Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #identity #language

Associated Press: Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives. “Africa is home to over 1 billion people speaking roughly a third of the world’s languages, with between 1,500 and 3,000 across 54 countries, according to UNESCO. Experts say the revival in some of them is driven partly by second- and third-generation Africans in the diaspora finding it […]

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 8/31/26: Ivan Van Sertima: Rewriting the History of the African Worldhttps://youtu.be/ulhNH5mwIR0?si=h0c9Vz2dgyVvWKMs#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 8/31/26: Ivan Van Sertima: Rewriting the History of the African World

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 8/24/26: Sterling Stuckey on Slave Culture and the Foundations of Black America https://youtu.be/FLYguLG7qeA?si=sB818QEkScBaTLCf#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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https://www.europesays.com/africa/393846/ From Howard to Bowie State, Ghana’s Asantehene is bringing Africa and the diaspora together in D.C. #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #BlackCulture #Ghana #HBCUs

https://www.europesays.com/africa/381109/ Africa Investment Summit Brings $4 Billion Pipeline to Washington as Organizers Seek to Turn Opportunity into Deals ##blackpress #ABIS #Africa #AfricaBusinessInvestmentSummit #AfricaFinanceCorporation #AfricanDiaspora #AfricanInvestment #blackpresusa #BlendedFinance #Feature #Featured #ForeignDirectInvestment #GhanaEconomy #MGMNationalHarbor #MillenniumExcellenceFoundation #NanaAgyemanPrempeh #NigeriaEconomy #StephenOduntan

This Time For the Africa Centre: Why protecting this historic institution matters for all of us

The Bounce Black Team

Some places are more than buildings. They become home…

Since 1964, The Africa Centre has been one of those places.

A space where African culture, heritage, creativity, community and possibility have been able to meet in the heart of London.

At Bounce Black, we know this because we have experienced it ourselves.

The Africa Centre has been a collaborator, a friend and an important part of the ecosystem that has supported our work. It has provided space for conversations, programmes, celebrations and connections, creating opportunities for people across African and Black communities to come together, share ideas and build something bigger than themselves.

That is why its current situation matters.

More than a building

When a cultural institution faces financial difficulty, it can be tempting to think about the problem simply in terms of a building, a venue or an organisation.

But community infrastructure is about much more than bricks and mortar.

It is about what happens inside those spaces.

It is about the young person attending an event and discovering a new possibility for their future.

It is about an artist finding an audience.

It is about a community organisation finding a place to gather.

It is about entrepreneurs, creatives, activists, professionals and community leaders meeting one another, forming relationships that lead to collaborations, opportunities and movements that reverberate years into the future.

It is about being able to walk into a space and feel that you belong there.

And for African and Black communities, those spaces matter. Massively.

In a world where our cultural institutions and community organisations are often asked to achieve extraordinary things with limited resources, protecting the infrastructure that enables this work is a collective responsibility.

A place with a legacy

The Africa Centre has been part of London’s cultural landscape for decades.

Its significance extends beyond any single programme or event. It represents a longstanding commitment to creating a platform for African culture, ideas, creativity and community.

That legacy deserves to be recognised, but it also needs to be protected.

Heritage is not simply something we preserve by looking backwards.

Heritage is something we carry forward.

The question, therefore, isn’t only what The Africa Centre has meant to previous generations.

It is what it means to us, now.

And what it could continue to mean to the next generation.

What happens when a young African Londoner walks through those doors ten years from now?

What conversations could happen there?

What businesses could be launched?

What artists could be discovered?

What friendships or romantic relationships could begin?

What ideas could become movements?

What futures could be imagined?

Those possibilities are worth investing in.

Why Bounce Black is showing up

Bounce Black exists because we believe that wellbeing, racial equity and social mobility are interconnected.

Our communities need opportunities to connect, develop, create and thrive. That requires more than individual resilience. It requires healthy ecosystems around people.

And ecosystems need infrastructure.

The Africa Centre has been part of that infrastructure for us.

As a collaborator and friend, we have seen the value of having a physical space where Black communities can gather and where organisations can do meaningful work.

So when we see an institution that has played such an important role facing an urgent financial challenge, we believe it is important to show up.

Not because one organisation can solve everything.

But because collective action starts with recognising what is worth protecting.

This is an invitation to show up

The Africa Centre has launched the “Our Africa Centre. Our Heritage. Our Future.“ fundraising campaign to help secure its future.

This is an opportunity for individuals, organisations, philanthropists, businesses and community members to contribute to the work of sustaining this important institution.

And support doesn’t have to look the same for everyone.

If you are able to donate, donate.

If you cannot donate right now, share the campaign.

If you have a platform, amplify it.

If you are connected to potential funders, philanthropists, businesses or institutions, make the introduction.

If you have benefited from The Africa Centre or from the wider ecosystem of African and Black cultural institutions, tell people why these spaces matter to you.

Sometimes solidarity looks like money.

Sometimes it looks like an introduction.

Sometimes it looks like a repost.

Sometimes it looks like simply refusing to let something important disappear quietly.

Our heritage. Our future.

There is a tendency to think of cultural institutions as something that can be dealt with later, something nice to have once the more urgent needs have been addressed.

But culture, community and belonging aren’t luxuries.

They are part of the infrastructure through which communities survive, connect and thrive.

The spaces we build today shape what becomes possible tomorrow.

That is why protecting The Africa Centre is not only about preserving the past. It is about investing in the future.

At Bounce Black, we are proud to stand with The Africa Centre as a collaborator and friend.

We hope our community will join us.

This is our Africa Centre.
Our heritage.
Our future!

Support the campaign

If you are able to contribute, please consider making a donation to the Our Africa Centre. Our Heritage. Our Future. campaign.

Donate to The Africa Centre’s GoFundMe campaign

And if you can’t donate, sharing the campaign can still make a difference.

Let’s help keep the doors open. For our communities, our culture and the generations still to come.

Become a friend to The Africa Centre

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 8/3/26: Amílcar Cabral’s Liberation Schools and the Fight to Build a New Guinea-Bissau [ENCORE]

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 7/20/26: China's growing influence in Africa - Power, politics, and local perspectives [REPLAY]https://youtu.be/MsLhf4H3vGc?si=rnKTNaZk66RFmkiV#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116961157139474454

NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 7/20/26: China's growing influence in Africa - Power, politics, and local perspectives [REPLAY]

https://youtu.be/MsLhf4H3vGc?si=rnKTNaZk66RFmkiV

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 7/13/26: Revisiting the #1619Project with Gerald Horne https://youtu.be/O_8oyj-H6wk?si=F9Ro3QimqDSDxogU#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #BlackMastodon #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 7/13/26: Revisiting the #1619Project with Gerald Horne

https://youtu.be/O_8oyj-H6wk?si=F9Ro3QimqDSDxogU

#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #BlackMastodon #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

https://www.europesays.com/3128936/ Nigerian-Canadian Bakare Wins Top Export Award in Canada #AfricanDiaspora #AIWearableTech #business #CanadaTech #commercialisation #DamilareBakare #Entrepreneurship #ExportAward #innovation #NigerianCanadian #technology #XInnovations

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1087309/ Nigerian-Canadian Bakare Wins Top Export Award in Canada #AfricanDiaspora #AIWearableTech #Business #CanadaTech #commercialisation #DamilareBakare #Entrepreneurship #ExportAward #Innovation #NigerianCanadian #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #XInnovations

Nigerian-Canadian Bakare Wins Top Export Award in Canada

INNOVATION • DIASPORA • TECHNOLOGY Nigerian entrepreneur and technology strategist, Damilare Bakare, has continued to make a mark…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entrepreneurship #Africandiaspora #AIWearableTech #Business #CanadaTech #commercialisation #DamilareBakare #ExportAward #Innovation #Nigerian-Canadian #Technology #X-Innovations
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/760601/

Nigerian-Canadian Bakare Wins Top Export Award in Canada

INNOVATION • DIASPORA • TECHNOLOGY Nigerian entrepreneur and technology strategist, Damilare Bakare, has continued to make a mark…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #Africandiaspora #AIWearableTech #Business #CanadaTech #commercialisation #DamilareBakare #ExportAward #Innovation #Nigerian-Canadian #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #X-Innovations
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/689472/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/583482/ Nigerian-Canadian Bakare Wins Top Export Award in Canada #AfricanDiaspora #AIWearableTech #Business #CanadaTech #Commercialisation #DamilareBakare #Éire #Entrepreneurship #ExportAward #IE #innovation #Ireland #NigerianCanadian #Technology #XInnovations

Nigerian-Canadian Bakare Wins Top Export Award in Canada

INNOVATION • DIASPORA • TECHNOLOGY Nigerian entrepreneur and technology strategist, Damilare Bakare, has continued to make a mark…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #Africandiaspora #AIWearableTech #AU #Australia #Business #CanadaTech #Commercialisation #DamilareBakare #ExportAward #Innovation #Nigerian-Canadian #Technology #X-Innovations
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/797493/

The One Book I’ve Read More Than Any Other: Why Americanah Never Gets Old

https://dimmajoblog.com/2026/07/13/the-one-book-ive-read-more-than-any-other-why-americanah-never-gets-old/

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 7/6/26: Amilcar Cabral;s Liberation Schools and the fight to build a new Guinea-Bissau https://youtu.be/lM-WAtBmR_8?si=x8vv0aNW6Nx7aND2#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 7/6/26: Amilcar Cabral;s Liberation Schools and the fight to build a new Guinea-Bissau

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NOW PLAYING == Africa Today with Walter Turner 6/29/26https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKyz3YSQ9rk#news #politics #geopolitics #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #WalterTurner #humanrights #commentary #leftist #KPFA #vsn #radio #resist #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #PacificaRadio

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Despite its majority Afro-descendant population, fewer than 10% of public monuments across Rio commemorate Black people. Photographer María Magdalena Arréllaga chronicles the project seeking to redress the balance

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/may/27/the-mural-project-honouring-the-black-cultural-heritage-of-rio-de-janeiro-photo-essay

#ArtMatters #MuralArt #muralist #brazil #RioDeJaneiro #AfricanDiaspora #mural #CrossCultural #AfroDescendant #Rio

Young, Black, and Powerful: Black Youth as Agents of Change

The Bounce Black Team

At the 5th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, one message came through clearly: young people of African descent are not just future leaders, they are rights-holders and changemakers now.

This framing matters.

Because too often, Black youth are spoken about in terms of deficits: barriers in education, limited access to opportunity, overexposure to systems of punishment, and underrepresentation in decision-making spaces.

These things are real, and they are systemic.

But they are not the full story.

Beyond Barriers: Recognising Agency

The Forum highlighted what many of us already know through lived experience:

Young people of African descent are actively shaping change in their communities, online, in workplaces, and across global movements.

They are:

• Organising and mobilising
• Creating new economic pathways
• Challenging harmful narratives
• Building communities of care and resistance

Yet, their ability to do so is often constrained by the very systems they are trying to transform.

To call young people “changemakers” without addressing structural inequality is incomplete. To address inequality without recognising agency is also incomplete.

Both must exist together.

Where Bounce Black Stands

At Bounce Black, this intersection is where we work.

Our programmes are grounded in a simple but powerful belief:

Black young people deserve not just access, but the tools, support, and environment to thrive.

Through initiatives like the Roots: Career Foundations Programme, we support Black students and early career professionals to:

• Navigate complex and often exclusionary systems
• Build confidence and clarity in their career pathways
• Develop skills that translate into real opportunities
• Prioritise wellbeing in the face of racialised experiences

This is more than standard professional development. It is structural intervention at the level of lived experience.

From Global Dialogue to Local Impact

We were also featured in a Forum side event titled Tomorrow’s Trailblazers: Youth Leadership Across the UK’s African Diaspora hosted by our friends at the Young Africa Centre.

The virtual event showcased YAC, its collaborators and the collective impact of youth-led organisations in London, UK.

Our contribution focused on:

• The realities Black students and professionals face in education and employment
• The impact of racial trauma on confidence, performance, and progression
• The importance of holistic, trauma informed support
• The need to move beyond “access” towards sustainable thriving

We shared how community-led, culturally responsive programmes can:

• Bridge the gap between policy and lived experience
• Equip young people with both practical tools and internal resilience
• Create spaces where growth, healing, and ambition can coexist

The response reinforced something important, namely that this work is needed, and it resonates globally.

What Needs to Happen Next

If young people of African descent are to be truly recognised as rights-holders and changemakers, then:

1. Systems must change
Education, employment, and justice systems must move beyond performative inclusion towards structural transformation.

2. Investment must follow
Community-led organisations doing this work need sustained funding and support. (If you’re feeling generous, consider donating to our crowdfunder here)

3. Young people must be meaningfully included
Not as tokens, but as partners in shaping policy and decision making.

4. Wellbeing must be prioritised
Thriving is not just economic; it is emotional, psychological, and social.

From Recognition to Reality

The conversations at the Forum are important. They set the tone. They shape global priorities.

But the real test is what happens next.

At Bounce Black, we remain committed to ensuring that these global commitments translate into something tangible.

In classrooms, workplaces, and our everyday lives.

Because Black young people are already changemakers.

The question is whether the world will meet them with the support, recognition, and structural change they deserve.

At this point, we’re done asking.

We’re demanding it and building for ourselves.

*The United States voted against a United Nations resolution this week to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.”*

*The resolution, which was led by Ghana, urged U.N. member states to apologize for the slave trade and to contribute to a reparations fund.*

https://archive.ph/lmvZb

#slavery #africandiaspora #history #capitalism #reparations #uspol #uspolitiics #EuropeanPolitics #Africa #ghana

I fully agree. Unfortunately, unless the UN has a mechanism for imposing meaningful sanctions on Western nations that profited from the African Slave Trade I don’t think anything meaningful will come from this. I can think of one nation in particular that will never accept any responsibility for its crimes…

https://apnews.com/article/un-vote-africa-slavery-trafficking-reparations-a7497cdb7d24a89eedb50beb683adc0f

#africandiaspora #slavery #uspol #USPolitics #EuropeanPolitics #useconomy #reparationsnow #capitalism

While the slavery UN resolution passed by a healthy 123 in for it, 3 against and 52 abstaining.

The three actively against were Israel, Argentina and the US.

The 52 abstain was made up primarily of the European block with a notable supporter of reparations, Ukraine, not having much to say on this clear and present need for reparations.

The "rules based order" at work I guess

#EU #Europe #Slavery #AfricanDiaspora #Reparations #Ukraine #NAFO #Ghana #EUPol #RulesBasedOrder

UN Secretary-General António Guterre stated today:

“Now we must remove the persistent barriers that prevent so many people of African descent from exercising their rights and realising their potential,”

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199

#AntónioGuterre #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

Huge update from the UN today, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has secured a UN resolution declaring the slave trade (and it's lasting impacts) as one of the world's worst human rights abuses.

President Mahama stressed the importance of this resolution in the fight for reparations paid by the countries who profited from slavery.

https://presidency.gov.gh/speech-president-mahama-at-a-high-level-event-on-reparatory-justice-at-the-un/

#JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

#Trans & #Intersex #History #Africa — Digital Archive

"It is important that we as #African trans, #gender diverse and intersex people speak for ourselves" — #VictorMukasa

"This statement by one of Trans & Intersex History Africa’s (TIHA) founders, Victor Mukasa, speaks to the rationale behind the TIHA digital archive, the history of trans, gender diverse and intersex movements in Africa, and the importance of archiving our histories/herstories/theirstories.

Supporting advocacy and movement building through archiving

We document events and important moments in a digital archive in the form of a visual timeline, as well as audio and video interviews as experienced and remembered by activists on the African Continent and within the #AfricanDiaspora.

As is the case worldwide, the anti-gender, conservative, #TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) rhetoric continues to gain strength and influences government policies, law and public sentiment, which impacts trans, gender diverse and intersex people’s lived realities and their fundamental human rights. We believe that the Trans & Intersex History in Africa (#TIHA) digital archive can contribute to the efforts of organisations, specifically those who cannot publicise their work due to threat of financial and legal consequences (which includes one of our founding partners), to ensure that trans, gender diverse and intersex existence and lived experience is recorded. This record will play a part in ensuring the collaborative strength of the African movements in combating the anti-trans, anti-gender-diverse and anti-intersex sentiment on the continent and in the African diaspora.

The TIHA digital archive acknowledges the existence of multiple movements, networks, groups and individuals and that the stories to be told are intersectional and carry various voices to form histories/herstories/theirstories. We are making a start with the information currently available but invite stories in whatever media to be submitted from across the continent and from the many places and voices not yet represented.

While we are in a continuous process of rethinking this important work, we invite you to engage with the information that the TIHA digital archive and Trans & Intersex Archival Conversations present. Get involved! Reach out! You can list your organisation/group, share your stories through the Timeline or through the Talk Show by getting in touch with us. We particularly invite first person stories and can facilitate the sharing of these in various languages."

Learn more:
https://transintersexhistory.africa/

#GBLTQ #LGBTQI #Transpeople #TransHistory #GenderQueer #Agender #Genderfluid #QueerHistory #Africans #RejectColonialism

I hate the constitution because they were never “the people” it was always crap from treaty-breakers. You don’t write “we the people” if you’re NOT the people. No one with power right now represents the people, much less is one of us. #landback #reparations #sovereignty for #natives and #africandiaspora