Hello Everyone
We are building an online course.
To improve the language & framing used in global media coverage of violence against queer African lives.
This free course will be beneficial to journalists, students, researchers, academics, policymakers, diplomats, civil society, activists, and pretty much everyone who has to write about or report on sexual and gender minorities in Africa.
We believe there’s a problem with how dominant media and communication portrayals of queer African lives center solely on the violence they experience.
We are asking: What has to change about our framing for us to see LGBTQ+ African lives beyond the violence? When we see, what can arm us with the language to describe it? What is the way to do that in a context in which violence is the norm? And what does it mean to create with peace as the starting point?
And why are we the best to do it?
Well, we are a group of journalists who form part of the online publication Minority Africa and we’ve spent the last few years covering minorities across Africa, including sexual and gender minorities.
We have reported on how marginalized groups are responding and engaged journalists from around 30 African countries such as Sudan, Eswatini, Morocco, Uganda, Ethiopia and Mali, among others.
Our journalists have years of experience and have reported for various regional and international media organizations including CNN, BBC, The Guardian, Aljazeera, and Foreign Policy.
And our work has been supported through the years by Google News Initiative, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Aga Khan University, DW Akademie, the French Embassy in Uganda, and the Solutions Journalism Network.