Now playing Next Cry like a boy Meet Dakar's male doulas fighting for gender equality in pregnancies “Men who accompany their wives to health posts are frowned upon because people tend to think that they are weak”, Makhtar Aidar says. Yet this is starting to change: he is one of the first male doulas in Senegal. #CryLikeaBoy 14/01/2021
Now playing Next Cry like a boy Podcast | The story of when Dakar was the “gay capital” of West Africa In this episode, we investigate the colonial roots of homophobia in Senegal. To do this, we travel back in time to when Dakar was known as the “gay capital” of West Africa #CryLikeaBoy #Podcast 07/01/2021
Now playing Next Cry like a boy Podcast | What it’s like to be a gay man in Senegal Dakar-based journalist Marta Moreiras explores what it means to be gay in Senegal, where homosexual men here are targeted with the slur “Góor-jigéen” - a pejorative term which literally means “men-women” in the Wolof language #CryLikeaBoy 17/12/2020
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