Africa: Being LGBTIQ in South Africa and Senegal - One Continent, Worlds Apart

A week ago, the sentencing of two transgender women in Cameroon to five years in prison for "attempted homosexuality" highlighted the ongoing difficulties sexual minorities and transgender people face on the African continent. RFI spoke to two young people in Senegal and South Africa about their very different experiences.

Habibou, a 25-year old student in Dakar, does everything possible to protect himself from the prevailing homophobia, and tries to hide his identity as a "goorjigeen" ("boy-girl" in Wolof).

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