University of nigeria nsukka lgbtq
Journal of LGBT Youth Perceptions and attitudes of heterosexual Nigerian University students towards homosexuality and LGB persons Kehinde Okanlawon
Journal of LGBT Youth ISSN: 1936-1653 (Print) 1936-1661 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wjly20 Perceptions and attitudes of heterosexual Nigerian University students towards homosexuality and LGB persons Kehinde Okanlawon To cite this article: Kehinde Okanlawon (2019): Perceptions and attitudes of heterosexual Nigerian University students towards homosexuality and LGB persons, Journal of LGBT Youth, DOI: 10.1080/19361653.2019.1620665 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2019.1620665 Published online: 29 May 2019. Submit your article to this journal View Crossmark data Entire Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=wjly20 JOURNAL OF LGBT YOUTH https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2019.1620665 Perceptions and attitudes of heterosexual Nigerian University students towards homosexuality and LGB persons Kehinde Okanlawon Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, The Hague, Netherlands ABSTRACT ARTICLE H
“They came for him, kicked open the wooden door shielding him and dragged him into the reveal. They hit him repeatedly with whatever objects they felt could unhinge his body and call forth confessions. Boots, balled fists, sticks, slaps. They asked him [who was] lgbtq+. They asked him to name names. There was no way it could be only him. They wanted to purge the hostels of fucking faggots and liberate the entire school from the infestation of the horrible ass-swinging taboos.”
He also conveyed the atmosphere of hostility in which he and his contemporaries now find themselves.
“Two weeks after the Owerri Book Festival, an unknown young man stalked me up to the rear gates of IMSU [Imo State University] and, when he finally caught up with me, threatened to cut off my penis if I went on to write and promote homosexuality…”
“It is over a year now since we started publishing LGBTIQ-themed poems. Threats have been coming. Thick-brained humans come to your Facebook inbox and write long sermons peppered with hate and warnings. They’d tell you to get ready for them.”
Obi’s friends are now trying to find ways to keep him out of danger.
“I have been speaking with him for some time and after
Arinze Ifeakandu’s Debut, About Queer Nigerian Men, Acquired by A Public Space Books
When he was 17 years old, Arinze Ifeakandu wrote a short story about a young lady who returns place after her father’s death, to the surprise of her father’s boyfriend. It was 2012. He sent the story to A Widespread Space, a US-based literary magazine. The story was not accepted, but one of the magazine’s editors, Jonathan Lee, liked it. “He said they’d stare out for me,” Ifeakandu tells Open Country.
Nineteen and a second-year English major at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ifeakandu wrote his tender and moving short story, “God’s Children Are Small Broken Things,” about two boys in love. In December of 2014, he sent it again to A Common Space, to its Emerging Writer Fellowship. The following year, he won the Fellowship and the story was published in the magazine’s Issue 24. In 2017, it was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing, making him the second youngest finalist for the award. Guide editors and a few readers suggested Ifeakandu expand “God’s Children Are Small Broken Things” into a novella. But he alre
The Gentle Defiance of Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta almost did not attend John Freeman’s talk. It was tumble of 2011, and she had been working on her fiction at Dey House, the historic Italianate building that houses the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She was sitting at the back in the reading room, by chance, when the then Granta editor’s event began, and when he said he would collect stories from workshop participants who wished to give him, she printed three and gave him. He boarded a flight back to New York.
“Somewhere over Pennsylvania, my hands started to sweat,” Freeman would say years later about reading her labor on that flight. “Here was a real talent. Someone who knew how often the press of love had to discover small spaces. Her stories were patient and sensible, as if they were written by a lady in her 80s who had condensed all her experience into 12 key narratives.”
Okparanta was only 30 at the time, but Freeman’s appraisal was of the storytelling instincts of a woman who, throughout her life, was privy to Igbo folktales that spanned generations. A female whose mother, when she was a child, gathered her and her siblings in the dark, during frequent power cuts in Nigeria,
Country Love, a nigerian film with a femme queer self as a conduct character
Though their Motion picture is a reflection of a lgbtq+ femme men in Nigeria, one of the countries with most hostile laws against LGBTQ+ group in the earth, Wapah Ezeigwe, did not hesite to gift the society their creation. The 26 years Senior filmmaker brought on the screen a femme lead ethics, a revoltionary action in the film industry in Nigeria but also around the world, this touch of creaction can change the narration of Queer in Africa.
In the Interview with Homosexual Christian Africa, Wapah underlined the reality that movie is a space where stories and fantasies can meet. They however understand how society can be a victim of cultural and religious sentiments that can limit inclusion and coexistence. They desire to tell a different story where representation matters in film industry not only in Nigeria but also in Africa where Gay and Femme male characters are so often subject of strong stereotypes.
Country Cherish is being embraced by the Queer community across the globe. It participated in the Atlanta’s LGBTQ fil festival 2022 and in Vancouver Queer festival 2022, with a translation of the movie in Ital