The hardening of homophobic nationalism in settings such as Nigeria forces us to question how and why compulsory homophobia is deployed as a form of moral discipline that is made to seem compatible with modernity. Peace is not the absence of conflicts or differences, but the ability to tolerate ‘conflicting interests’. Tolerance, or in this instance, the lack of it, has always been a major source of conflict and violence in Nigeria. From religious, cultural, and startlingly, the inability to […]