Courage Rebirth is a play that follows the story of a gay Somali woman,
Fawzia, who’s displaced by political unrest in her home country at only 21 years old. She finds asylum later in Uganda as a refugee of war with her little brother Axmed. Both haunted by the loss, scars, and gaps that the war inflicted on their family, the siblings never give up. At the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, Fawzia is a source of entertainment to fellow refugees and sings riveting songs that attract Kato, a Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist in the camp. Later, Rashid moves back to Kenya, and Fawzia, now 28, a professional singer and a music teacher, hits both small and big stages. However, even with her talent and the good cause of her music, society still doesn’t view her as one of their own, but she remains determined to find happiness even with what life throws at her.

A compassionate confrontation with death. A blossoming love squashed by hatred. A star-crossed romance torn apart by secrets. In three short plays, Stargazer, Beginner’s Luck, and Waiting for Gordon, Jonathan Opinya Wamukota of Kenya uses his poetic style to craft a picture of the realities of queer love in a society that punishes same-sex romance.

Achan, feeling the pressure of being unmarried at 27, falls for Oyat after meeting him at a bar. Unbeknownst to Achan, Oyat is hoping she will be a surrogate for him and his boyfriend’s child. When Achan learns the truth from Oyat’s boyfriend, John, she must confront her own traditional upbringing to find love and new notions of family in modern Uganda.