Queer Nigerians gathered in their numbers at the country’s capital, Abuja, on May 1st, 2022, protesting the amendment to the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (“SSMPA”), seeking to criminalize crossdressing and the overall scapegoating of queer citizens that began in the early 2000s. The protest was the first mass demonstration since the October 2020 #EndSars…
Multi-award winning singer and songwriter Janelle Monáe has come out as nonbinary. The singer who had previously come out as pansexual in 2018 made the disclosure of their gender identity on Wednesday 20 April 2022 during the season premiere of Jada Smith’s Red Table Talk. “I am nonbinary, so I just don’t see myself as…
On 29 March 2020, Roxane Gay officially announced the first three forthcoming titles from Roxane Gay Books. In this list is ‘And Then He Sang a Lullaby’, the debut novel of 22-year-old Nigerian writer and queer activist, Ani Kayode Somtochukwu. Born in Enugu State Nigeria, Ani holds a degree in applied biology and biotechnology from…
In 2014 the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in a last-minute effort to appease the voting public and secure a second term in office, signed into law the Same-Sex Prohibition Act (SSMPA). Since the passing of this law, queer Nigerians have faced harassment, discrimination, and violence because of their perceived sexuality. The SSMPA…
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