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20 March 2026

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog: African women, cinema and LGBT subectivities


Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog
African women, cinema and LGBT subectivities
 
Following is a selection of articles regarding LGBT African women or by African women filmmakers on the subject of LGBT subjectivities that have been published on the Blog.

 Maryam Touzani: Le Bleu du Caftan | The Blue Caftan. 

Josza Anjembe : Baltringue | Freed - Towards a self-interrogation | Vers un auto-questionnement.

Claudine Ndimbira : Support her film project “Living like a shadow” about the LGBTQ community in Rwanda.
 https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/12/claudine-ndimbira-support-her-film.html

 Rafiki: to our forbidden love! | à nos amours interdites ! Cannes 2018 (analysis/analyse, Falila Gbadamassi - Africiné)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2018/05/rafiki-to-our-forbidden-love-nos-amours.html

 Rafiki by/de Wanuri Kahiu : Cannes 2018 - Un Certain Regard

Nneka Onuorah launches a crowdsourcing campaign for "Rotten Fruit" film project
 https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2017/05/nneka-onuorah-launches-crowdsourcing.html

The African Women in Cinema Blog spotlights Nneka Onuorah and her film “The Same Difference” during Women’s History Month

FESPACO 2017: Normalium by/de Siam Marley (Cote d’Ivoire)

When Alice Diop takes us "towards masculine tenderness" | Quand Alice Diop nous entraîne "vers la tendresse" au masculin by/de Sylvie Braibant – tv5monde

Understanding lesbophobia in West Africa: sixteen women’s voices | Seize voix de femmes pour comprendre la lesbophobie en Afrique de l’Ouest

Frieda Ekotto: For an endogenous critique of representations of African lesbian identity in visual culture and literature

Frieda Ekotto : Pour une critique endogène sur les représentations visuelles et littéraires de l’identité lesbienne africaine
Zanele Muholi: Some Prefer Cake - Bologna Lesbian Film Festival - Italy

Zanele Muholi: Some Prefer Cake - Le Festival du film lesbien de Bologne - Italie 2012

Cheryl Dunye's "Black is Blue" Kickstarter campaign success

Marie Kâ : L'Autre Femme | The Other Woman (Senegal)
Naomi Beukes-Meyer (Germany-Namibia) launches crowdfunding for the 2nd Episode of THE CENTRE Web Series
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2014/09/naomi-beukes-meyer-germany-namibia.html

Wanuri Kahiu: "Homosexuality is not unafrican; what is unafrican is homophobia"

Boukary Sawadogo discusses his research: Three marginal figures in the cinemas of Francophone West Africa - the mad person, the homosexual, the woman

Sophie Kaboré’s Quest: Exploring African homosexualities
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