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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)

What would it look like if q***r professionals in Nigeria had the same chance to thrive as anyone else?Nigeria’s first s...
11/12/2025

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 & EmpowerQ 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: https://minorityafrica.org/i-conducted-nigerias-first-survey-on-q***r-professionals-heres-what-we-found/

08/12/2025

In Nairobi, thousands of people with disabilities struggle to move through the city each day. As mainstream ride-hailing apps leave such users behind, one Kenyan startup is working to offer an alternative.

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

Dieudonne faced discrimination not only as a person with disability but also as an Anglophone in a predominantly Francop...
05/12/2025

Dieudonne faced discrimination not only as a person with disability but also as an Anglophone in a predominantly Francophone country. Despite this, he was determined to succeed in Cameroon, partly as a form of defiance against a system he felt institutionalised discrimination, and partly to inspire his peers.

Before the outbreak of the Anglophone Crisis in 2016, he had established an electronics accessories shop in Guzang to support his family. By then, he had a wife, a daughter, and an ageing mother suffering from cerebral malaria. “I was also selling fuel, which was supplied from neighbouring Nigeria,” he reveals.

Given his desire for a large family— though not through polygamy like his father—the shop was meant to guarantee stability and a better future for his children.

However, the escalating armed conflict forced him and his family to flee to Bamenda, the capital of one of the affected regions, in 2017.

Continue reading on our website: https://minorityafrica.org/he-lost-his-leg-as-a-child-then-he-crossed-one-of-the-worlds-deadliest-migration-routes/

According to Rare Disease Advisor, achondroplasia, which Ikmatu lives with, is a type of dwarfism caused by changes in t...
03/12/2025

According to Rare Disease Advisor, achondroplasia, which Ikmatu lives with, is a type of dwarfism caused by changes in the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3 (FGFR3) gene. About 80% of cases happen by chance, meaning the parents are of average height, while the remaining 20% are inherited from a parent who also has achondroplasia. A 2020 study found that in North Africa and the Middle East, about 34 out of every 100,000 babies are born with achondroplasia, whereas in sub-Saharan Africa, the figure is about 13 out of every 100,000.

Education is guaranteed as a right in Sierra Leone. Yet for children like Ikmatu, school can feel more like a test of endurance than a place of learning. Classrooms are built for the “average” child — children who can reach the blackboard, sit comfortably in standard desks, use toilets independently, and access bookshelves with ease. For students with dwarfism, these seemingly ordinary tasks often become daily battles.

Continue reading on our website: https://minorityafrica.org/i-always-climb-the-bench-like-a-mountain-the-design-failures-shutting-children-with-dwarfism-out-of-sierra-leones-schools/

Our community has always been at the heart of what we do at Minority Africa. As we wrap up 2025, we’d like to chat with ...
03/12/2025

Our community has always been at the heart of what we do at Minority Africa.

As we wrap up 2025, we’d like to chat with our people. This townhall is a chance for us to listen, reflect, and understand what the year has been like for everyone. It’s a space for honest conversations about what has worked, what hasn’t, and what we can build together moving forward.

On the 10th of December at 2pm (WAT) we will be hosting journalists from across Africa represented by regional reps which include Taiwo Bankole MHSN (Nigeria, West Africa), Seliphar Musungu Machoni
(Kenya, East Africa), Dorcas Ekupe (Cameroon, Central Africa) & Mary Mundeya (Zimbabwe, Southern Africa).

Minority Africa will be represented by our Executive Editor, Caleb Somtochukwu Okereke and our Community Specialist, Amaka Juliet NKEMDY and other members of the team across various units.

This event is hosted in collaboration with our news agency, Advance by Minority Africa. To be part of the conversation and our growing community, join us here: https://lnkd.in/dM5-pYyx

02/12/2025

Colonization reshaped gender in Africa, placing women under new European-defined norms and creating what scholars call the first colonization of the female body. This shift altered womanhood, power, and identity in ways that didn’t exist in many Indigenous societies.

Watch this explainer done in collaboration with Providence Suenge to see how these concepts still shape women’s lives today.

Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, the backdrop to these women’s stories, began in 2016 as a political and social conflict ro...
28/11/2025

Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, the backdrop to these women’s stories, began in 2016 as a political and social conflict rooted in the marginalisation of the country’s English-speaking regions by the French-speaking majority government. Over time, peaceful protests escalated into violent clashes between separatist groups and the state.

The crisis has created a massive displacement emergency, with the United Nations estimating nearly 700,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), many fleeing violence to major cities like Yaoundé, where Menye and Fonyuy now live.

The Divisional Officer of the area where both women live, Joseph Alain Etoundi, acknowledges that Menye and Fonyuy’s stories are part of a much bigger crisis.

“The security crisis in the North West and South West has led to an influx of internally displaced persons into my area of jurisdiction, Yaoundé VI,” he says. “We have made efforts to register all these IDPs, in partnership with civil society actors. For now, the state has no plans to evict them, but is in a tight spot to handle accommodation and individual support for all the families.”

Continue reading on our website (through the link in our bio)

Thabang Mmelusi Maboela, Clemmy Hadebe, Zachee Imanitwitaho, and Jo-Ann Isaks. These are transgender people who have bee...
21/11/2025

Thabang Mmelusi Maboela, Clemmy Hadebe, Zachee Imanitwitaho, and Jo-Ann Isaks. These are transgender people who have been murdered in recent years.

For this year’s Transgender day of remembrance, we are sharing stories of transgender people who died tragically, most of them murdered between 2023 - 2025.

Across Africa, the deaths of trans people are under-documented. We would love to memorialise them, please share names and stories of those we may have missed in the comments.

Swipe to say their names.

For decades, Kenya has provided a safe haven for refugees escaping persecution and conflict from the Great Lakes region....
19/11/2025

For decades, Kenya has provided a safe haven for refugees escaping persecution and conflict from the Great Lakes region. The latest data shows that Kenya hosts approximately 836,907 refugees and asylum seekers, the majority of them (51%) at the Dadaab camp, 36% at the Kakuma camp, and 13% in urban areas.

In 2021, the UNHCR estimated that there were 1,000 LGBTQ+ refugees in Kenya, but rights groups say the number could be 5,000 since the Kenyan government stopped registering refugees based on sexual identity.

Craig Paris, executive director of the Refugee Coalition of East Africa (RefCEA), told Minority Africa that since 2022, the number of q***r refugees and asylum seekers from Uganda and DR Congo has been on the rise.

“We have so many we have helped settle in urban areas after opting to walk out of the refugee camps. We have new cases coming in every other week,’’ Paris said.

Read more on our website: https://minorityafrica.org/ive-been-waiting-10-years-q***r-refugees-hope-for-dignity-in-kenyas-new-integration-plan/

Less than 1% of Nigerians, approximately 900,000, speak with a stutter. Although the cause of stuttering is unknown, it ...
14/11/2025

Less than 1% of Nigerians, approximately 900,000, speak with a stutter. Although the cause of stuttering is unknown, it is widely agreed to be a neurological issue. Scientists theorise that children develop a stutter when a cognitive conflict activates the brain’s Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS). A cognitive conflict occurs when the brain encounters a problem in making a decision.

For instance, a linguistic cognitive conflict can happen when a person wants to say the word pap but is simultaneously thinking of closely related words such as pat and pad. This activates the BIS, which pauses otherwise automatic processes like speaking, so the brain can be extra cautious in selecting the correct word. However, this pause can cause anxiety and hypervigilance, making it harder to speak smoothly.

Read more at the link in our bio.

In Kenya, National Identity (ID) cards are mandatory for all citizens aged eighteen and above and are issued through the...
12/11/2025

In Kenya, National Identity (ID) cards are mandatory for all citizens aged eighteen and above and are issued through the National Registration Bureau (NRB). These cards are more than just proof of citizenship—they are the key to participating fully in society. An ID is required to access essential services such as healthcare, education, and banking, as well as to vote, open a bank account, or receive government benefits. It serves as a legal identifier, enabling social and economic inclusion while also playing a vital role in maintaining personal and national security.

While there is no single definitive figure for the number of Kenyans without National ID cards, reports from 2021 estimated that more than two million adults lacked one.

Read more on our website here: https://minorityafrica.org/he-hoped-a-national-id-would-open-doors-his-missing-fingerprints-kept-them-closed/

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