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African Reflections on Sexuality and Equality

African Reflections on Sexuality and Equality

The Reflections series aims high.  It is designed to encourage voices of African students, scholars, researchers, professionals and activists to emerge. Our human presence can be found in every country and in every culture and every community on this continent. But our existence has been denied, reviled, persecuted and repressed – too often in blood. Now is the time to create a discourse specific to our continent on sexuality, sexual rights, gender identity and gender expression. A discourse that defiantly, but informedly, and persuasively, asserts our claims to human dignity and to justice. A discourse that measures passion and reason and facts and focuses them on tender lives.

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