Will Binyavanga Wainaina change attitudes to gay Africans?

Irene Kiwia.

Irene Kiwia from Tanzania won Woman of the Year Africa award

 Africa Reconnect (http://www.africareconnect.com), a platform for women who have made remarkable contributions to the growth and development of the various nations in Africa has today awarded 11 Africans whose contributions to women empowerment in their countries is outstanding.

The award ceremony, which took place in Polokwane, Limpopo South Africa, concluded a two day empowerment conference themed “ Accelerating...

National Geographic
Changing Attitudes of Maasai Steppe Pastoralists Offer Hope to Lions
National Geographic
The Maasai people of Tanzania may be one of the last of the world's cultures that has maintained most of their traditions through the modern age. The lion hunt remains one of their most celebrated rituals, simultaneously honoring the big cat and praising ...

So the lovely Lupita Nyong’o brought home Kenya’s first, and one of Africa’s few, Oscar awards for her role in the film “12 Years a Slave”. Seems the world cannot get enough of Lupita.

Mwandishi maarufu wa vitabu nchini Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina, amejitokeza hadharani kuwa yeye hushiriki mapenzi ya jinsia moja.

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Of The Tanzanian Change And Our Own Change By Peter Claver Oparah
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Of recent, the hyperactive Nigerian social media has been abuzz with heightened excitement of some Nigerians on reported changes that are taking place in Tanzania under President John Pombe Magufuli.
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The 77 countries where being gay is a crime

>I am sitting in this dala dala which just won’t move because of the jam.  Looking through the window, my eyes are greeted by a petty trader with boiled groundnuts in her hand which she stretched out to me.

How well received are African migrants in the UK?

Leading Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina comes out to say he is gay, making him one of the most high-profile Africans to do so.