310:. In August 2013 Jojibaro was featured on the cover of The Wire magazine while he was an activist at Out in Kenya. He co-founded the first LGBTIQ church in Kenya a year later after leaving OiK. He was appointed Kuchu Times Kenya Correspondent in 2015. Later on, Barasa was named key people fighting homophobia and transphobia in Africa by Huffpost, featured in a photo exhibition "Love is not a crime" in Bilbao, Spain by Amnesty International, Nominated and finalist of David Kato Vision and Visual-Kaleidoscope Award 2016. After appearing in the first gay music video from Kenya the now banned viral Same Love (remix) of Macklemore song, he feared for his life was in danger and fled to South Africa which promptly rejected him before he found refuge in Canada where he is now in exile. most recently a recipient of Poz-TO
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