Gala Times

Hopes and Dreams is an anthology of stories that describe how individual queer activists in Sub-Saharan Africa have come to be where they are today. [...] For this reason there are sections within the GALZ collection that are not available to researchers (this is true of other collections as well) and also why GALZ chose not to participate in our 2019- 2020 digitisation project with GALE. [...] HM: Well I think the first thing that we need to do is educate ourselves around this movement and really come face-to-face with the ideas that they are promoting. [...] The existence of the LGBTIQ community is said to be a threat to the concept of family. [...] Furthermore, from my point of view, the bill is not in alignment with the core Christian values that the country purports, as it promotes and advocates suppression and violence towards a minority group. [...] It is quite evident that the parliament in the country uses public opinion to tweak and alter its constitution. [...] The feeling of isolation in a pandemic, egregiously amplified with the impact to work and study, can leave a feeling of perpetual uneasiness, like an unmoored ship. [...] So when I grew up and was watching films I re- alised that is what they call the FBI in America. [...] In 2020, when everyone was kind of holed up in their houses, I was like, this is the perfect oppor- tunity to have pride for a pan-Afri - can [audience] since everyone was Zooming. [...] That is the best. What I love in a great day.