Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro

Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro is a Ugandan transgender woman and human rights activist, advocating for equality and social justice with particular focus on sex workers and gender non-conforming communities. Kentaro is recognized for her advocacy and was featured in the 2016 award-winning feature-length documentary The Pearl of Africa.

Quotes

• You are not alone, and because I can do this, you also can do this.
  • Beyond the Struggle: Trans Activist Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro on the Everyday Joys of Embracing Her Identity. Okay Africa. (March 18, 2019)
• How come people don't mind me.
  • Beyond the Struggle: Trans Activist Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro on the Everyday Joys of Embracing Her Identity. Okay Africa. (March 18, 2019)
• You walk in this world with your head held up so high. And with such a confidence that it makes the people who doubt you and think you're wrong think that it's them who are wrong to doubt that you should exist in this world as you are.
  • Beyond the Struggle: Trans Activist Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro on the Everyday Joys of Embracing Her Identity. Okay Africa. (March 18, 2019)
• Cause that's my world, and I feel like I exist in a world that never questions me.
  • Beyond the Struggle: Trans Activist Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro on the Everyday Joys of Embracing Her Identity. Okay Africa. (March 18, 2019)
• I could lean on someone; tell them what I was going through. We didn’t have all the answers, sure, but it helped us start to navigate what it means to be.
  • Meet Ugandan Trans Activist, Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro. Leading Ladies Africa. (September 25, 2019)
• I think it is important when approaching the conversation around sexual education in Africa to use things that we have used to communicate as Africans.
  • Meet Ugandan Trans Activist, Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro. Leading Ladies Africa. (September 25, 2019)