Silent Majority, Ghana (SMG) is a member-driven, movement building collective that provides popular education about indigenous Ghanaian genders and sexualities and community organizing strategies as a practice of queer freedom. Founded in 2021 in response to the Ghana Police Services’ violent shut down of an LGBT+ community center, our collective believes that with global and diasporic pressure, popular education to effect cultural change, and organizing previously silent and silenced allies to join in solidarity with queer Ghanaians, we can transform the culture in Ghana to support freedom and the dignity of all Ghanaians.
Silent Majority, Ghana is a registered nonprofit in Ohio with federally recognized tax-exempt (501c3) status.
Our Mission
Silent Majority, Ghana's mission is to mobilize popular education and community organizing among Ghanaians and other allied groups in the diaspora, develop transnational connections with activists in Ghana and across Africa, and build power to positively transform the lives of all Ghanaians regardless of their perceived gender or sexual orientation.
Our Vision
Silent Majority, Ghana has a radical vision, rooted in progressive indigenous values and cultural practices, for freedom and justice for all people in Ghana and around the world, regardless of their gender expression or sexuality.
Our Approach
Community through MembershipPopular EducationTransnational CoalitionLevers of Change
Anima Adjepong is the founder and executive director of Silent Majority, Ghana. Inspiration for this organization came directly out of Dr. Adjepong’s research about Ghanaian cultural politics. While working on their book, Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities and Culture from Houston to Accra (2021), they learned that despite structural homophobia and transantagonism at the level of the state, capital C culture and religion, individual Ghanaians were willing to learn about and engage with queer people as friends, siblings, relatives, and community members. This was the case both in Ghana and the United States. Recognizing how oppressive cultural, political, and religious forces silenced opportunities for allyship and vocal support of queer Ghanaians, Dr. Adjepong formed Silent Majority, Ghana to offer communities of solidarity, popular education, and transnational coalition building.
Dr. Adjepong is a writer and associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati.