On this Episode of Speaking Through My World, Nkwain Hamlet the Executive Director of Working for our Wellbeing Cameroon highlights the situation of Black LGBTQIA migrants Trappe in Tunisia, unpacking the revolutionary work that the organization is doing to reach out to this persons as well as throwing light on their untold stories, the discrimination, hardship and xenophobic attacks against them.

On Friday the 21st of April a young boy was mercilessly beaten by a gang of hoodlums at PK14. He was lured into an obscured environment where he will then meet his doom. His Molesters whom he meet online via a dating app, posed as members of the community, booked a rendezvous with him and got him tortured according to information gathered by our team.  The following day we dispatched a team to the field to collect and document the case. After gathering information, they got in contact with the boy and his family. the family will however be filing a judicial process to lay hands on the perpetrators.

In this first [French and English] episode of Section 347A and others stories we are talking about Sexual and gender minorities rights in Cameroon with Alice Nkom, a Cameroonian lawyer, nationally known for her advocacy towards decriminalization of homosexuality. About her :  In 1969, she was the first French-speaking woman called to the bar in Cameroon. In 2003, she founded ADEFHO (Association for the Defence of Homosexuality). Her most famous cases : Les neufs de la discothèque ( 2005) Jean-Claude Roger Mbede (2012) Shakiro and patricia ( 2021) This is an audio versio of an Facebook live of August 10th in our office.  Also, we are working to give you a better sound quality in the future.  ©Working For our Wellbeing Cameroon

Where will you [ As an entitle rich and upper middle class queer person ] be when they[ Those whose do not want you good] come ? by Pat Parker.  Pat Parker was an African-American poet, queer activist, lesbian and feminist. Recorded at the Third World Conference sponsored Kick-Off Rally for the 14th October 1979 (first) National March On Washington for LGBTQ Rights. ©Third World Conference, 1979 and Where Would I Be Without You, The Poetry of Pat Parker & Judy Grahn

Né à Douala, Max Lobe est un écrivain, queer, suisse d'origine camerounaise. Ces oeuvres :  Loin de Douala, éditions Zoé, 2018   Confidences, éditions Zoé, 2016   La Trinité bantoue, éditions Zoé, 2014   39 rue de Berne, éditions Zoé, 2013   L’Enfant du miracle, éditions des sauvages, 2011   La Promesse de sa Phall'Excellence, éditions Zoé, 2021 ©Pédé, un poème de Max Lobe.

Bishop John Shelby Spong is a retired United States Episcopalian Bishop, equal rights activist and writer.  This conversation was recorded in June 2001 before Sunday Service at Brisbane’s Metropolitain Community Church.  Bishop Spong had been banned by both Brisbane’s  Catholic and Anglican Archbishops from speaking for his message of acceptance and tolerance in churches.  ©Queer Radio

For Straight Folks [ in Cameroon ] Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They [ Like Shakiro a famous and outspoken, Cameroonian transgender woman ]  Weren't So Blatant by Pat Parker. Pat Parker was an African-American poet, queer activist, lesbian and feminist. Recorded for the audio format of Where Would I Be Without You, the Poetry of Pat Parker & Judy Grahn ©Where Would I Be Without You, The Poetry of Pat Parker & Judy Grahn

Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang was a Pan-Africanist, leading African/Cameroonian Queer rights advocate and HIV/AIDS activist.  This Opening Plenary was recorded in 2010 at the MSM Pre-Conference to the International AIDS Conference in Vienna (Austria). © International AIDS Conference of Vienna (2010)