PAST EVENT:
5 June 2015
Gladstone Gallery, NYC

AFRICA'SOUT! CELEBRATION!

"This event produced by AFRICA'SOUT! is very dear to my heart and was inspired both by Wanja Muguongo’s work with UHAI EASHRI and also the public coming out of my close friend, writer/activist Binyavanga Wainaina. On January 18, 2014, through a symbolic letter to his Mother published online, Binyavanga pronounced that he is gay. It was the 'lost' chapter of a book he'd published two years before, called “One Day I'll Write About This Place”, for which I helped design the cover. Only one week prior to Binyavanga’s letter, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan passed a flat-out anti-gay law, which makes same-sex relationships illegal, punishable with up to 14 years in prison. Uganda passed a similar law on February 24, 2014, punishing “aggravated homosexuality” with life imprisonment (revised from an earlier proposal of the bill, in which individuals would receive the death penalty). With this sort of climate rampant throughout the continent and the world, our action is more important now than ever. I am so very proud of all the courageous Artists and culture producers who have joined us in this effort - the first ever AFRICA'SOUT! fundraising benefit."

Wangechi Mutu, Artist & Founder, AFRICA'SOUT!

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