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They stayed in a ‘communal’ Nigerian city and built a home for queer art
They stayed in a ‘communal’ Nigerian city and built a home for queer art

Image Description: (Left to Right) Picture collage featuring Asan, James and Ayo. All photos by…

A dark-skinned figure stands in a white dress against a gritty, black-and-white backdrop of Lagos. The figure’s head is replaced with a carved wooden mask representing Esu, the Yoruba deity.
They call her a witch. But this Nigerian Orisha priestess refuses to disappear

Image Description: A dark-skinned figure stands in a white dress against a gritty, black-and-white backdrop…

An open casket lowered in the ground, revealing a man in a blue suit made out of Ugandan shillings.
“Who saves for death?’: Where funeral costs break families, a village burial society offers another way

Image Description: An open casket lowered in the ground, revealing a man in a blue…

A cross-section of soil with several green sprouts emerging, including one that looks like a musical treble clef, 2 that are shaped like human heads, and 3 regular looking plants at the top.
Kenya outlawed the sharing of indigenous seeds; an unlikely village choir is fighting back

Image Description: A cross-section of soil with several green sprouts emerging, including one that looks…

A collage made up of a woman carrying tubers in a basket, with a farm and an image of 2 women drying grain in the background.
These Nigerian women are claiming their “right to own land”

Image Description: A collage made up of a woman carrying tubers in a basket, with…

“Where are you really from?”: Navigating identity and belonging in the Somali diaspora

This photo essay was produced in collaboration with Somali Sideways. A condensed version of the…

A portrait of a mother, a child and a red outline of a masked male figure. The mother and child have cracks on their faces, and there is a blank birth certificate in the background.
“My mother is a victim of rape…according to our culture it is shameful to have a child without a clan”

Image Description: A portrait of a mother, a child and a red outline of a…

In Cameroon, “Solomon Grundy” turns to TikTok to challenge stereotypes about albinism

Image Description: A collage of Solomon Grundy (center), Lisette Emmanuelle Waffo (left), and Blanche Carelle…

A seedling in a cage against an abstract background colored in Kenya's national colors red, green and black. This background also contains excerpts of a petition against smallholder farmers superimposed with an image of a field.
“Farming is not a crime”: Kenya’s smallholder farmers are challenging a law preventing them from sharing Indigenous seeds

Image description: A seedling in a cage against an abstract background colored in Kenya’s national…

“A game changer”: How a Kenyan radio station is reviving a dying indigenous language

Nakuru, Kenya (Minority Africa) — Standing out within the Mau Forest Complex, in a forested…

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