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05/01/2026

Every week, stories shaping real lives slip past the headlines.

By reading, sharing, and amplifying them, you help ensure they don’t disappear.

Minority Roundup brings you carefully curated reporting on women, migrants, persons with disabilities, displaced communities, and religious and s*xual minorities across Africa and the diaspora, stories that deserve context, care, and reach.

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As a q***r Nigerian, my s*xual history intersects with religious and bodily trauma. For me, s*x education and s*xual hea...
02/01/2026

As a q***r Nigerian, my s*xual history intersects with religious and bodily trauma. For me, s*x education and s*xual health awareness had been ensured with the combined weight of severe repression and intense curiosity, alternating periods of dignified ignorance and obsessive indulgence. Certain presumptions seemed to be facts and remained unverified for a long time. I once thought it urgent to get tested for HIV after I accidentally digested someone else’s semen. I once had unprotected s*x because I was convinced that there was a mutual intention not to cause any harm.

On getting older and seeing the thread of credulousness in such actions, I realised how the anxious attachment style I developed in childhood extended to my need for connection. Now, before disclosing my poz status, I ask myself: Why tell this person? Of what significance is my HIV status to our relationship?

Continue reading on our website at link in our bio.

30/12/2025

Every year, many women are released from Kenyan prisons, but freedom doesn’t always feel like a new beginning for all of them.

Founded in 2015 by Theresa Njoroge, Clean Start Africa is working with women and girls impacted by the criminal justice system, especially the integration of incarcerated women back into society.

Continue watching here: https://youtu.be/J647OtRJ89s?si=PEYk0DZH4x0Xw5bP

I felt comfortable in my mother’s clothes, so comfortable that I knew I would wear them on the day of the pageant regard...
25/12/2025

I felt comfortable in my mother’s clothes, so comfortable that I knew I would wear them on the day of the pageant regardless of their size, as I did even during rehearsals at school. A night or two before the event, my mother called me into the living room and handed me a bag, and although she often bought us clothes for Christmas, I sensed immediately that this was something else.

Inside were a blouse, a wrapper, a headtie, and a pair of shoes, all made for me, measured to my small body in a way her clothes never had been. She had sewn me an outfit for the pageant that mirrored her own, only scaled down to fit me, and she had included the same brown powder she used on her face, and every accessory I would need. I began to cry as soon as I understood what she had done and embraced her so tightly.

Continue reading on our website.

23/12/2025

This is a story about Shalom, a married man, a father, and a devoted husband, and the life he believes he has carefully kept intact.

In this series, Shalom is forced into a confrontation he resists, not a journey toward confession or release, but an interrogation of the labels people claim, reject, or live without.

Unlabeled is a Minority Africa series that explores individuals living q***r lives without claiming q***r identity.

Names and voices are altered to protect identities.

Story by: David Bondze,
Produced and animated by: Sarah Nene Etim, Caleb Okereke and Jamie Intwari.
Voice actors: & .

Your 2025 favourites are in!We are so delighted to share this with you, and it was solely influenced by how you engaged ...
19/12/2025

Your 2025 favourites are in!

We are so delighted to share this with you, and it was solely influenced by how you engaged with our stories throughout the year! Thank you for engaging, sharing and supporting our work.

What type of stories would you like to see in 2026? Share with us in the comments👇🏽

Azeez’s experience reflects a wider and often overlooked consequence of Nigeria’s homophobia: the targeting of healthcar...
18/12/2025

Azeez’s experience reflects a wider and often overlooked consequence of Nigeria’s homophobia: the targeting of healthcare workers and non-profits that provide essential services for q***r people, especially men who have s*x with men (MSM).

Pew Research Center data show that 99.5% of Nigerians identify as religious—either Christian or Muslim—and many interpret q***rness as sinful or incompatible with cultural norms. In such a deeply religious society, these moral convictions often spill into public life, leaving LGBTQ+ people vulnerable to stigma, violence and, in many cases, persecution sanctioned by the state. The 2014 Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act intensified this hostility.

Continue reading on our website: (link in our bio).

17/12/2025

“If I cannot be myself at home, then where else do you expect me to be myself?”

In this episode of In Conversation with Minority Africa, our guest, Wamboey reflects on gender expression, growing up masculine-presenting in Kenya, and the quiet violence of being labeled “un-African” for simply existing.

This series centers lived experience, creating room for conversations that challenge stigma and invite understanding.

Watch full video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bILg6_fvS5Q

17/12/2025

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17/12/2025

Every week, the stories that matter most slip past unnoticed.

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For Cynthia Ebot, an early-career freelance journalist, the pitch clinic meant more than just another workshop. The goal...
15/12/2025

For Cynthia Ebot, an early-career freelance journalist, the pitch clinic meant more than just another workshop. The goal was clear: pitch directly to editors and apply feedback in real time.

As she put it: “I refined my pitch on the go. Initially, I had a slightly different approach, but as the editors gave feedback on other submissions, it became clear what they were looking for — so I tweaked my pitch on the spot.”

Whether you’re pitching for the first time or refining your craft, the next Pitch Clinic is for you.

👉 Fill out the interest form: https://forms.gle/yrrgGnVNLA39C6gc6 ahead of March 4, 2026.

What would it look like if q***r professionals in Nigeria had the same chance to thrive as anyone else?Nigeria’s first s...
13/12/2025

What would it look like if q***r professionals in Nigeria had the same chance to thrive as anyone else?

Nigeria’s first survey on q***r professionals, conducted by Jeremiah Ajayi & reveals stark workplace realities: q***r Nigerians are more educated than the national average, yet face unemployment rates 6× higher, and 94% of q***r professionals with advanced degrees are preparing to leave Nigeria.

For more context on the data shared, read the full essay here on our website (at link in our bio)

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