Lives of Nice Males: Residing and Loving as an African Homosexual Man

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From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, U.S.A. to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France; from throughout the Diaspora to the center of the African continent, on this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edozien gives a extremely private sequence of latest snapshots of identical gender loving Africans, unsung Nice Males residing their lives, triumphing and discovering pleasure within the face of nice adversity. On his travels and sojourns Edozien explores the worsening authorized local weather for homosexual women and men on the continent; the affect homophobic evangelical American pastors are having in lots of nations, and its poisonous intersection with political populism; and experiences the pressures positioned on these residing underneath harshly oppressive legal guidelines which can be themselves the legacy of colonial rule – pressures that generally result in searching for asylum within the West. But he stays hopeful, and this memoir, which is pacy, romantic and humorous by turns, can also be a love-letter to Africa, above all to Nigeria and the megalopolis that’s Lagos.
PRAISE FOR 'LIVES OF GREAT MEN'
“Frankie Edozien's The Lives of Nice Males is an extremely highly effective portrayal of what it means to be a homosexual Nigerian man. However what makes this guide so excellent is its tender and insightful exploration of all of the difficult, unstated bonds in our most intimate relationships. In prose that’s without delay participating and inquisitive, Edozien holds the human coronary heart to gentle and finds the methods it manages to outlive regardless of all of it.”
 Maaza Mengiste, creator of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
“Frankie Edozien writes with an urgency that’s compelling, with a weak honesty that’s disarming and spectacular, and with class about his life and a topic so dangerous and but mandatory. This isn’t a memoir of popping out homosexual in Nigeria as a lot as it’s a name to step into our humanity. A mandatory and brave guide.”
Chris Abani, creator of GraceLand and The Secret Historical past of Las Vegas