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09/07/2025

Want to pitch your story to a global newsroom, but aren’t sure where to begin?

We’re excited to launch Minority Africa’s first-ever Pitch Clinic supported by our collaborative news agency - to support journalists with easy and direct access to newsrooms across the globe.

For this first edition, we’re partnering with & , a global newsroom amplifying the voices of women and girls worldwide.

Selected participants will get to:
✅ Refine their pitch ideas
✅ Receive personalized feedback
✅ Pitch directly to the MTHS editorial team

If you’re a journalist from a marginalized community or covering underreported stories, this is for you. Kindly note that being a part of our community is required to enter this process.

Join our community to fill the interest form: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JFXY1h70ClIHJ6cbAJ57vT?mode=r_c

08/07/2025

Susan Mujjawa takes us behind her reporting on how many Deaf women in Uganda are trapped in abusive relationships, often with nowhere to turn.

In this Behind The Story episode, she shares what survivors told her, and what society continues to ignore.

🎧 Listen to the audio + read the full story:
👉 https://minorityafrica.org/i-endured-in-silence-deaf-women-in-uganda-and-their-struggle-with-abusive-relationships/

04/07/2025

🌍📢Excited for ? So are we!

Join Patricia Kisesi, our Managing Editor, at the DW Global Media Forum from 7–8 July as we engage in critical conversations shaping the future of journalism, democracy, and media innovation.

Want to connect or collaborate? Reach out via [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!

02/07/2025

“I’m visually impaired but not from birth. Even after marriage, I was working. One day on the bus to work, a wind like a foreign body blew into my eye. That was the beginning. You see the thing that we have five senses, if you lost one, then the rest became very active.

I use my mind, to work, and to touch, to feel, hear and move around too. I also like games, but I’m alone so I have not been doing it, but I listen to the radio and television for news and drama, I enjoy it paapa (very much). You have to prove to society that disability is not inability.

You can do whatever you like, feel like a normal person, like a human being. Though, some people stigmatize us. You see this; Oh, you can’t see. Where are you going? What are you doing? They feel if you are... disabled then you will have to stay at one place, you shouldn’t do anything. But you are also like them, so they should allow us to be independent and to feel free.”

We spent time with Mr. George and Madam Jane, two visually impaired Ghanaians, who let us into their world. They share how they experience and adapt to the world around them on their own terms.

01/07/2025

Currently, Melfort houses 20 elderly individuals, including native Zimbabweans and former migrants primarily from Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Many of them face old age without pensions, exposing them to severe poverty.

While they are entitled to receive monthly social welfare grants such as the Harmonised Social Cash Transfer (HSCT), which ranges from US$10 to US$25, a 2018 report noted that payments are not consistently disbursed, undermining the scheme’s reliability.

“I just wish the government could give me at least $10 for pocket money every month so I can buy whatever I want,” Musendami says. “I have no one who visits me or gives me even a dollar.”

Unlike native Zimbabweans, who often retire to their rural homes, former migrants like Jamba and Musendami have no such option. Zimbabwe’s land ownership laws make resettlement nearly impossible, while their countries of origin, long disconnected, are now unfamiliar and unreachable.

Read more here: https://minorityafrica.org/i-just-wish-to-meet-them-zimbabwes-forgotten-migrant-workers-face-old-age-without-family-or-country/

25/06/2025

As we slowly wrap up on , we asked our community to recommend their top 10 q***r on the website and these were their top choices!

Swipe to see more and read all the stories on our website: www.minorityafrica.org

23/06/2025

“For me, being a q***r artist now in Nigeria means taking space and creating however you want to create. It also means to not be distracted by the Western expectation of what a q***r artist should be, but to learn from our indigenous cultures that are q***r in their formations and express our sense of self.

I grew up here in Ibadan and one thing I have noticed is that while people can be very curious about how you express yourself as a person, they rarely take this up against you, compared to what I have experienced in other cities like Lagos. Which is to say, there's a lot more communal space here in Ibadan than in Lagos. For instance, in the area where I live, every morning people come out to engage with themselves, q***r or non-q***r alike, and this is important for me as a performance artist because I work in the public space and I can engage with everyday people with practices like this.

For a performance artist, Ibadan offers me a lot of materials to work and engage with. I can easily access Yoruba priests that inform my research in the cosmological practices of the Yoruba religion and in turn inform my own work.

We need more structures as q***r artists, and not just only q***r spaces that support us. It's not only that I am being invited or given grants to work on my projects, you have to follow through and let the q***r artist work at their own pace. Some of the q***r art spaces I have been into have this rigid way of thinking, saying this is how things work, so we need more intelligent q***r curators and cultural workers who we don't need to over-explain our work to.

I hope there is more freedom and flexibility in our art as q***r artists in Nigeria. I hope we find more balance within ourselves and have resources to create the works that we want to do and not the ones that we have to do.”

For , we spoke to three q***r artists living in Ibadan about what it means to claim space outside Nigeria’s social spotlight of Lagos and Abuja.

20/06/2025

Kenyans demand Justice after popular political blogger dies in police custody after his arrest over an alleged defamatory comment about Deputy Inspector General Eliud Lagat.

▶️Watch full video👇🏽

19/06/2025

One of the most troubling issues is the ‘protection fees’ demanded by local gangsters. Vendors are forced to pay exorbitant sums—some as high as R4000 a month—to avoid harassment or robbery. Though the vendors know the individuals behind these demands or those connected to them, they are unable to provide proof due to fear of retaliation. This exploitation persists because there is little recourse or protection for those who refuse to comply.

Local police rarely patrol those areas, and when vendors report crimes, the lack of evidence or witnesses means that little or nothing is done. In some cases, there are no police vans available to respond at all.

Read full story on our website here: https://minorityafrica.org/my-father-was-a-street-vendor-in-post-apartheid-south-africa-decades-later-not-much-has-changed/

17/06/2025

For , we go behind the story with Raldie Young on his piece “Tuning into q***rness: How I found my identity with music.”

From writing parody songs as an escape from bullying in secondary school to falling in love with ArchAndroid’s Cindi Mayweather and its themes of love, oppression, and freedom, Raldie Young explores how music has helped him acknowledge his very own experience.

🎧 to audio here and read full story on our website: https://minorityafrica.org/tuning-into-q***rness-how-i-found-my-identity-with-music/

12/06/2025

Let’s chat with Nelson Byaruhanga tomorrow at 4pm (WAT). He will be sharing insights on “Human Rights Reporting: My Story of Resilience”.

Nelson is a published indigenous writer of fiction in English Language from the Uganda’s northern Albertine Rift. He is a trained freelance journalist, celebrated investigative reporter, feature writer, filmmaker and storyteller.

Save a seat here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JFXY1h70ClIHJ6cbAJ57vT

11/06/2025

“I view q***r art as a reflection of the audience. Your art is not seen as a critique of the status quo, but as the voice of millions of people.

Ibadan is like a ball that spins. It is how you spin the ball that you get what you want. But you have to be able to dig deeper to find your place, it is easier and more comforting to claim a space here than in Lagos. Q***r spaces in Lagos are controlled by power and money or the appearance thereof. You have to know certain people to know certain people and it’s more expensive to build safe spaces in Lagos than it is in Ibadan.

When I came out, I encountered many q***r artists in the Isese community — people who carve wood and stones and make egungun masquerades, people who beat drums and sing songs. I also encountered other q***r artists like Morley, James Notin, and Kehinde Awofeso who are doing the work and thriving.

I hope q***r artists make a lot of money from our art and establish ourselves as fully human. I hope our art is accessible and speaks to future generations that we have always been here.”

We spoke to three q***r artists living in Ibadan about what it means to claim space outside Nigeria’s social spotlight of Lagos and Abuja.

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