Queer film in Africa is rising – even in countries with the harshest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws

By Gibson Ncube, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University

A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and means within the context of African countries. Its author, Gibson Ncube, is a lecturer and scholar who focuses his research on queerness in African cultural production – from literature to…

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