Ugandan Transgender Rights Take Center Stage In Documentary Film 'The Pearl of Africa'
BY JENNIFER SEFA-BOAKYE | DECEMBER 4, 2014
http://www.okayafrica.com/film/the-pearl-of-africa-documentary-transgender-rights-in-uganda/ (http://www.okayafrica.com/film/the-pearl-of-africa-documentary-transgender-rights-in-uganda/)
The Pearl of Africa is a forthcoming documentary feature that follows 27-year old student and transgender activist Cleopatra Kambugu as she openly transitions in her native Uganda where earlier this year parliamentarians sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to make her very existence a crime punishable by death.
Earlier this year, Kambugu was publicly outed on the front page of Ugandan tabloid magazine Red Pepper soon after President Yoweri Museveni signed the reprehensible Anti-Homosexuality Act into law. Forced into hiding with other LGBTI Ugandans to avoid mob attacks and arrest, Cleo lost her job and eventually relocated to Nairobi, Kenya.
You can watch the docu serie on youtube here is the link -> https://www.youtube.com/user/pearlofafricatv (https://www.youtube.com/user/pearlofafricatv)