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A woman sits on a prayer mat in a dimly lit clay-walled room, illuminated by a small lantern. Her husband stands behind her, facing the wall, where his shadow splits into two overlapping silhouettes—one masculine, one feminine.
‘He plays with men’: The northern Nigerian women married to husbands living double lives
A person in a pink shirt stands at a crossroads, arms folded. On the left, the Nigerian National Assembly building looms under dark clouds with shadowy figures. On the right, a bright path lined with blooming flowers stretches into a clear sky.
“This isn’t home for me anymore”: A decade under Nigeria’s anti-gay law
A young man sitting cross-legged in a dark shirt with a red HIV awareness ribbon pinned to it. Behind them, there is shattered glass revealing a bright white light within the cracks.
“We screen them but do not record them”
Description: A collage of grainy pink and purple halftone portraits of young men whose faces are partially obscured with cutouts of other people. Layered behind them are fragments of online messages about love and money.
“We touch bros but we no gay”: The hidden intimacies of Ghana’s fraud boys
A young queer couple sharing an embrace in a glass box surrounded by floating eyes.
Is my love queer enough for you?
A faceless queer figure with dark skin and a lip ring, set against a chaotic background of torn newspaper clippings and bold protest signs. Headlines with harmful stereotypes are partially blacked out, while vibrant signs proclaim “Being Queer Is Not A Headline” and “Tell Our Stories Right.”
“They want you to say something negative”: Queer Nigerian journalists face systemic exclusion
A surreal depiction of a screaming person in dark purple against a gray background with orange-tinted edges. In front of this person are a set of bent prison bars colored pink and marked with religious symbols in orange.
‘Ranting Atheist’: The podcast building a community for irreligious Nigerians in a society where it is dangerous to be one
Description: A large tree with roots of different pride colors underground. Some of these colored roots blend into the more natural-looking color of the tree trunk.
“My family of choice”: Queer Nigerians are moving from conventional to chosen families, but is it always enough?
A colorful lighthouse standing in a stormy sea, with beams of light transforming into supportive hands reaching out to drowning queer community members.
“They made me feel like I mattered”: Inside an online counselling service for LGBTQ+ Nigerians
A jigsaw puzzle in the form of a transwoman with a few pieces scattered across the image and a crimson-colored background.
She was bullied for attending a women-only event as a trans woman. It was not the first time