On a recent trip to Cape Town, South Africa for a workshop on Religion & Sexual and Gender Minorities, Anthony Akaeze, Associate Editor, met with Clyde Terry, a member of the South African gay community at a social function. Terry, in this interview speaks about his experience as a young man who later had to…
Trump Takes Charge
America’s 45th president begins his four-year tenure after an electoral victory that still leaves many around the world stunned. There is a prize that comes with success which even those opposed to the winner cannot deny him. For Donald Trump, the American business magnate, this statement rings true. The man whose astounding victory against Hilary…
Two Sides Of A Story
Claims of delivering LGBTI members from demons by a Nigerian church is disputed by some members of the community. Pastor Christopher: What have you been pushing him to do against his will? Tedus Odupute: I made him love men. Instead of loving women, he loves men…I made him gay. Pastor Christopher: You unclean…
Gambian President-Elect Alive
In the last hour, the social media had been awash with news that Adama Barrow, Gambian President-elect who defeated the country’s long-ruling leader, Yahya Jammeh in the country’s presidential election on December 1, 2016, had been killed. An online medium, CBN Television, claimed that Barrow, who had vowed to assume duty as President of the…
Africa’s One Health Strategy
For a continent much maligned for its tardiness in responding to emergency situations, African leaders, it seems, are working to do away with that reputation. And the motivation for this might be no other than Ebola, the deadly disease that recently claimed thousands of lives on the continent, from Liberia to Sierra Leone, Guinea, and…
Lesbian, Gay and Stigma
Some days ago, I was alerted to a story on social media about lesbianism. It involves a beauty queen from Anambra State who was allegedly filmed while having sex with her partner. The video, to quote one media outfit, has since gone “viral.” The initial reaction of the fingered woman, however, Chidinma Okeke, the 2015…
Lagos Govt Defends Decision To Demolish Waterfront Communities
Following the protest organized by members of waterfront communities in Lagos State against the threat by the Lagos State government to demolish their houses, the state government has come out to clarify its position on the matter. Steve Ayorinde, Lagos State commissioner for Information and Strategy, at a press briefing on Tuesday attended by Gbolahan…
Lagos Waterfront Communities Protest Planned Eviction
For the second time within a week, members of waterfront communities in Lagos State took to the streets to protest their fate. The residents were protesting the plan by the Lagos State government to demolish all waterfront communities in the state based on recent media reports credited to Akinwumi Ambode, the Lagos State governor. The…
The Cry Of The Slum Dwellers
They came in their numbers, with many of them wearing long faces and chanting solidarity songs. Men and women, young and old, they strolled into the venue of the press conference in Yaba, that May 24 with a mission: to tell the world about the suffering they’ve been through since last year the Lagos State…
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