Pride Afrique

18/08/2025

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24/08/2023

Marline Oluchi is the inaugural recipient of the Pride Afrique Leading Light Award, 2023.

As the Pride Afrique team, we surprised her with the award as a celebration of excellence and the commitment she has shown towards building a world free of violence and discrimination.

Marline Oluchi is a Feminist Activist, an advocacy and communications strategist working on gender justice and LGBTQIA+ rights from an intersectional lens, in Africa. She has led inspiring initiatives within the movement and has volunteered with Pride Afrique from inception in 2020.

As the Chair of Pride Afrique 2023, we acknowledge all the work she put into making the first in-person continental Pride event a success.

21/08/2023

At our just concluded Satelite Workshop on Reimagining Safety and Solidarity, Chantel Fortuin shared best safety practices from a faith-based and social justice lens, highlighting the work they have done in building safe spaces for the communities they serve.

Chantel is a black le***an from Botswana who identifies as an African womanist theologian. She is extremely passionate about theology as a field of study and a way of life. Her particular areas of interest are how it relates to or intersects with spirituality, sexuality, gender, and monetary statuary.

Chantel has a BA in theology, and she focuses on religion, inclusiveness, and their relationship to human rights in her work. She has a long history of LGBTI activism and is currently the regional coordinator for the Global Interfaith Network’s Religious Dialogue Partner program. She is also a minister-in-training in a Christian denomination, where she is studying the word and works of Christ.

16/08/2023

During the Pride Afrique Satelite Workshop at the just concluded Pan Africa ILGA Conference 2023, Liberty Matthyse shared insights on the work they’re doing at Gender DynamiX, in enabling physical and digital safety across several countries.

These best practices provided insight for other organizations present.

Identifying as a trans non-binary woman, Liberty is the Executive Director of Gender DynamiX and a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and holds a Master’s Degree in Law (cum laude) focused on non-discrimination and marriage equality for transgender persons (University of the Western Cape). Liberty also holds qualifications in Project Management, Leadership, Financial Management and Strategic Business Management (University of Cape Town).

She/They can be defined as a community-centred, critical-thought, human rights and social justice activist whose passion in fighting for dignity, equality and freedom for trans and gender diverse persons drives their/her dedication to achieving positive change. In her/their spare time she/they enjoys playing tennis, writing, exercising and spending time with loved ones, particularly in their/her hometown of Darling.

16/08/2023

10/08/2023

Nate Brown, the Executive Director of Pan Africa ILGA, is the inaugural recipient of the Continental Leader Award, 2023, from Pride Afrique.

Nate contributed substantially to movement building across the continent, enabling solidarity and amplifying the individual and collective work LGBTQIA+ activists and organizations are doing.

As the Executive Director of Pan Africa ILGA, Nate has led the work at PAI, building membership from 150 in 2018 to 350 member organizations in Africa today, member organizations representing a very large population of the LGBTQIA+ persons in 40 countries.

Beyond member organizations, other community members and organizations have also had access to the resources provided by PAI, as part of community building efforts.
Nate has shown exceptional expertise and mobilization capacity in organizing at the regional level, vision, transformative ideas, building alliances and advocacy structures.

As the inaugural recipient of this award, We want to not just commend Nate but also encourage him to do more inclusive work in building the movement, as his impact is felt across board.

06/08/2023

Sights from Pride Afrique, 2023! 🏳️‍🌈

LGBTQIA+ Africans from all regions of the continent came out to celebrate the Power of Pride at the First in-person Continental Pride in Africa!

Over 400 people in one space!
We made history!
We found healing!
We rekindled hope!
We redefined q***r joy!

Most importantly, we shaped the narrative of what Pride means to us!

03/08/2023

We look forward to seeing you at the Pride Afrique Satelite Workshop today.

Rev. Nokuthula Dhladhla will be speaking on Reimagining Safety and Solidarity for the LGBTQIA+ community in Africa.

Rev Nokuthula Dhladhla works for Global Interfaith Network Capacity Building for Dialogue as a Project Officer, on a project that is called Cleaning Our Own Backyard ( COOB). She was ordained in 1998 officially as a Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) as a Pastor of Hope and Unity MCC She that have recently reopened its doors again.

She is a member of Circle of Concern African Theologians Women, a Board member of Micah project, a committee member of Association of Christian Religion Practitioner, and a Founding member of the new association which is called Ashes to Purpose.

Rev Nokuthula is also a Spiritual Coach helping people to find their own journey of faith and how to integrate sexuality and spirituality. In the years since then, Nokuthula has participated in a very wide range of work in the field of religious dialogue especially – convening and participating in many meetings with religious leaders, working towards establishing greater understanding and acceptance for LGBTIQ+ people in the faith sector.

Among others, she has made a very important contribution to a process convened jointly by the Church of Norway and the Fellowship of Christian Councils of Southern Africa (FOCCISA) to begin a process of dialogue and training material with the councils and their members towards creating greater understanding and tolerance for LGBTIQ+ people in Southern Africa. She has also been involved in designing the training curriculum for LGBTIQ+ people of Faith engaging in as Dialogue partners.