Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Nigeria: A Personal Perspective

men's clothes on pavement

Photo: Cover, Romeo Oriogun’s book, Burnt Men; photo by Chibuihe-Light Obi Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun, Nigerian poet, Artist Protection Fund & SAR Fellow In Nigeria to be Queer and vocal means to live in danger, as society forces to conform to what it knows as normalcy which in reality is a remnant of colonization. There is no safe space and Queer people are arrested, lynched and in some cases burnt to…