Hiplife and Afropop artist Angel Maxine said she wrote Wo Fie, meaning “Your Home” in the Twi language, to comfort LGBTQ+ Ghanaians who were not only facing threats from authorities, but also a surge in verbal and physical attacks from the public. “The situation for the queer community in Ghana is very tense at the moment,” Maxine, 35, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from the capital, Accra. “As Ghana’s only transgender musician, I had to do something to help my community.
The song is to tell them that they are not alone, and also to tell others that we are also humans and deserve to exist just like them.” Earlier this year, the country’s first LGBT+ community centre was shut down three weeks after opening following uproar from