LGBTQ Nation on MSNOpinion

These 5 stories show that queerness was a part of pre-colonial Africa

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.
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African perspectives : pre-colonial history, anthropology, and ethnomusicology / Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann, Michael Weber (eds.)

Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna. Accompanying DVD-ROM contains photographs, videorecordings, and audio recordings to illustrate the ...
The Africa Report

Uganda: How the Nubians went from mercenaries to citizens

Over time, the new arrivals assimilated individuals from different ethnic backgrounds within Uganda while remaining a distinct group. Now officially recognised as Ugandans, the history of Ugandan ...
The East African on MSN

Echoes of the empire: Uganda’s fight to shed colonial relics

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni often describes himself as a revolutionary, trying to develop an African mindset away from colonial influence. But his country, like the rest of East Africa, has ...
The Conversation

Uganda’s Owen Falls dam: a colonial legacy that still stings, 67 years later

John Mukum Mbaku is affiliated with Weber State University (Ogden, Utah, USA) and The Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.) Uganda’s Owen Falls hydropower plant has a rich history that predates the ...