Welcome to Documenting Queerness Archive! |Episode 1|

We are often considered and told we're people without history, western imports, foreign influenced. But– what is history and who decides what is archived today and what ultimately becomes history?

Why do we need a queer archive that documents our lives, all the parts of it especially when it isn't violence, abuse, or numbers.

Here's where to find us:

Host: awo dufie föfie https://linktr.ee/awodufie

Script review: PreciousGift Ebunolowa

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Recommended Further Readings:

Rightify Ghana- Western Region Church Ministers calls Queer people foreign https://x.com/RightifyGhana/status/1659866628706672642?s=19

Featherstone, M. (2006). Archive. Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2-3), 591-596.https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276406023002106 (Original work published 2006)

Mbembe, A. (2002). The Power of the Archive and its Limits (C. Hamilton Ed.; J. Inggs, Trans.). In Refiguring the Archive (pp. 19-26). Cape Town: David Phillip.

Otu KE, van Klinken A. African Studies Keywords: Queer. African Studies Review. 2023;66(2):509-530. doi:10.1017/asr.2022.163

Music: Angel Maxine - Wo Fie feat Wanlov the Kubolor & Sister Deborah

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