KinArchive

Our historieswere neversilent.

An archive and journal of queer African life, gathered with care and held in community. Memory as resistance. Memory as joy.

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  1. 2015

    Mozambique's new penal code

    A revised penal code takes effect without the colonial-era provisions used against same-sex relations.

  2. 2019

    Botswana High Court ruling

    The court strikes down colonial-era laws criminalising consensual same-sex relations.

  3. 2020

    Gabon decriminalises

    Parliament reverses a 2019 law that had criminalised same-sex relations.

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