AFRICA'SOUT! was founded as a platform to celebrate, congratulate and shout out our love, our solidarity and advocacy for Africans of all walks of life. We wanted to publicly show our pride in being unique as Africans; powerful in our creative talents, and multinational in our definition of Home. AFRICAS'SOUT! began as a platform to highlight creative African members of the LGBTQI community, who are advocates, who fight for all freedoms and creativity excellence. We embrace and show our gratitude for the gifts and talents of our courageous visionaries. We have not gone away, we are still working, we are still strong, we are filled with hope and we believe in our future and our countries as places that will one day fully accept the enormous amounts of work we do and the gift of Love we bring.

ABOUT US

AFRICA'SOUT! is a bold loudspeaker and a groundbreaking proponent for radical change through 'Imaginative Activism', creative brilliance, and new effective methods of articulation. AFRICA'SOUT! harnesses the power of artists and the creative community, especially from within the African Diaspora, to highlight the urgency of pressing social and political issues through unique and dynamic platforms.

Our guiding principle is Imaginative Activism.  Imagination in all of its creative manifestations is indomitable despite political oppression, social ostracization, and even death. Its creative manifestations in Art persist in all of these spaces despite repression, because it is proof of the human spirit. Thus Art is the only medium that has entered these spaces without being detected, and can leave these spaces as a witness. AFRICA’SOUT! not only detects the Art in these spaces, but fosters it, activates it for social change and celebrates the creative minds producing it.

The commitment to celebrating the courage and creativity of bold visionaries, especially among people of African descent guides AFRICA’SOUT! The spirit of those who have been ostracized because of their color, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or simply their courage to live without shame imbues all of our actions.

The primary focus of our grant-making is to advance radical change through the power of art and activism, particularly supporting artists, initiatives and institutions from Africa and its Diaspora that celebrate freedom of creative expression.