Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) has unveiled a new e-magazine titled Myria.
The journal was set up as part of a framework of the organization’s Knowledge Management program. The aim is to create an editorial space for conversations and reflections, open to LGBTQI activists and allies, on issues that affect the development of the LGBTQI movement in West Africa, including philanthropy, democracy, the environment, feminism, etc.
The name is from the Dioula word Myria, a language spoken in Burkina, Mali, and Ivory Coast, which means Reflection, Thought, Meditation.
The first issue titled ‘Citizen Engagement of LGBTQI Activists in Broader Social Justice Struggles in West Africa’, tells the story of the civic engagement of LGBTQI activists in other social justice areas beyond the agendas of legal reform and other electoral agendas in the various regional contexts. It also shows the different perspectives of the participation of LGBTQI activists in citizen engagement, with contributions from the different communities that make up the LGBTQI movement in Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, with special participation from Cameroon.
This issue highlights the importance of LGBTQI activists’ voices, leadership, and solidarity in other social justice struggles, and how these issues are interconnected. This discussion is also part of our commitment to intersectional feminism.
ISDAO hopes that this issue will start a conversation on the often undocumented and unrecognized contributions of LGBTQI activists to general social justice struggles outside of the LGBTQI movement.
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To read in French, visit here.
