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 {{Display censorship incident
-|ongoing=yes
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 |year=2014
 |region=Africa
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 |subject=Explicit Sexuality, Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Sexual/Gender Orientation, Violence
 |confronting_bodies=Raw Material Company
-|medium=Film/Video, Installation, Photography
+|medium=Installation, Photography
 |date_of_action=May 2014
 |location=Dakar, Senegal
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 The French-Algerian artist Kader Attia presents ''Collage'', 2011, an hour-long video about the lives of transsexuals in Algiers and Mumbai.
+|description_of_incident=The Senegalese government shut down the exhibit after the gallery, Raw Material Company was vandalized and the building destroyed. Muslim fundamentalists are the alleged perpetrators of the attacks, motivated by their disagreement with the "reference to homosexuality."
-|description_of_incident=The Senegalese government shut down the exhibit after the gallery, Raw Material Company was vandalized and the building destroyed. Muslim fundamentalists are targeted as the perpetrators of the attacks, motivated by their disagreement with the "reference to homosexuality."
 |description_of_result=The exhibit was canceled and the Raw Material Company was shut down. The case is ongoing and the gallery has placed a hold on all future exhibitions that could stir similar reactions.
 |image=Who we are.jpg
-|source=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Gay-art-show-to-go-on-in-Senegal/32339
 }}
 {{DISPLAYTITLE:Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness (exhibition)}}
+[http://www.ethiopiaobserver.com/fr/2014/06/show-on-african-homosexuality-shut-down/ Show on African homosexuality shut down]
+[https://76crimes.com/2014/06/11/after-mob-attack-senegal-blocks-gay-themed-art-show/ After mob attack, Senegal blocks gay-themed art show]
+[http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/senegal-host-gay-art-exhibition-may-despite-criminalizing-gay-sex110414/#gs.AnLwm9U Senegal to host gay art exhibition in May despite criminalizing gay sex]