“We believe in Ghana, and that we deserve the same rights due every Ghanaian… We deserve to be heard”
ACCRA, GHANA
“How long till we’re persecuted? How long are we to cower because we’re queer? How long will it take to feel safe in a world that hates us?”
These are some of the questions posed by Alex Kofi Donkor, founder of the recently closed LGBT+ Rights Centre in Accra, Ghana. Across many parts of Africa, the fight for LGBTQ+ rights is visceral. “While the world is focusing on the pandemic, I am coming from a place where human rights abuses are unchecked,” says Abdul-Wadud Mohammed, communications director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, a non-profit activist group also established
