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Selly Thiam

Selly Thiam is a Senegalese-American journalist and oral historian whose work has appeared on NPR, PBS and in the New York Times. She was a producer for the StoryCorps Oral History Project, PBS’ Learning Matters and a Carnegie Fellow at the ABC News Investigative Unit.

She is the founder and Executive Director of None on Record, a digital media organization documenting the stories of Africans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. 

The LGBT movement in Africa

Faced with a gap in its historical documentation, the project will examine if homosexuality existed in Africa pre-conversation, and produce a four-part video series that recreates four stories from a historical context.