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‘Queer and African’ Print

$45.00

‘Queer and African’ by Janina Nana Yaa

A3 print on 160 gsm paper

Original medium is ink pen and marker on paper


To be Queer and African is a beautiful and powerful thing. It goes beyond our physical bodies and who we like to be sexually intimate with. Queerness, even though an English word - is deeply embedded in the identity of who we are as Africans. We may have lost some of our language for this but reclaiming it in English doesn’t make it any less African in its essence. We have always existed and we will continue to.

No matter how much you try to oppress us, suppress us, restrict us, abuse us, deliver us from ‘evil’ or kill us. We will continue to be here and we will continue to be reborn as the Ancestors that we are.


To be Queer means we live beyond colonial standards and structures, it means we love cosmically and ancestrally. To be Queer means we express through, within and way far beyond the binaries of what it means to be a ‘man’ or ‘woman’, ‘male’ or ‘female’. To be Queer means we do need to live based on the assignment of our genitalia. To be Queer and African means we are gatekeepers of the spirit realms and powerful healers.


To be Queer and African is one of the most beautiful things you can be in existence and it should always always be celebrated in its fullest capacity. May we remember we are valued and loved. May we remember to value and love ourselves over and over again. Àṣẹ


An affirming print for the Queer African. Could be a lovely gift for a friend or loved one.


Janina Nana Yaa Asiedu (they/them) is a Queer Ghanaian artist, Ritualist and Ancestral practitioner. Born in Aotearoa NZ and founder of Nyame Dua x House of Afi, they offer visual art, herbal skin-care, spiritual adornments and divination that guide the collective through the waters of Ancestral healing & intimacy.


Janina’s artwork embraces the use of vibrant tones to call the unseen to be seen - honouring African Divinities, Adinkra symbols and mystical forces of Nature. Their heart is most fulfilled when uplifting LGBTQIA+, African, Black and Brown community. Deeply inspired by Indigenous patterns, line work and naturally informed by their upbringing in Tāmaki Makaurau their art reflects their ancestral migration as manu / tauiwi and the ongoing connection to whenua.


For all commission work please email [email protected]