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Queer Lagosians made alté cool. Now they’re being pushed out.

Group Therapy nightclub scene in Lagos, Nigeria (Photo courtesy of Instagram)

Queer spaces have always existed in Nigeria, but only on the margins Black queer figures dancing in an underground rave. (Illustration by Rex Opara courtesy of Minority Africa) Queer communities helped shape Lagos’s underground party scene. Now, as alté culture moves into the mainstream, the people who built it are being pushed to the margins – again.   In a …

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GEN SEJUSA TAKES ON M7 OVER TEACHERS’ STRIKE: “Show them love, NOT the hammer! They’re starving, NOT stubborn!”

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Former Coordinator of Intelligence Services, Gen. David Sejusa, also known as David Tinyefuza, has made a passionate appeal to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, urging him not to sack striking teachers but to instead listen to their grievances, describing their current living and working conditions as “deplorable and desperate.” In a strongly worded message shared on his official social media platform …

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