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Across much of Africa, homosexuality is taboo and gay people face prejudice, persecution and even execution. More than half the countries on the continent outlaw it, while four enforce the death penalty. In Nigeria, a gay man who holds hands with his partner on the street can face up to ten years in prison.
Portrayals of what it means to be gay in West Africa or the diaspora are rare.
Nigerian-American writer and journalist Chiké Frankie Edozien has written what has been hailed as Nigeria’s first gay memoir Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man.
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