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Young and Outside the Margins: Impact of COVID-19 on African LGBT+ youth
Nigeria: Realistic lesbian love in landmark Nollywood feature
African churches: Why preach love, then imprison gays?
Why do people who preach love every Sunday want people put in prison for what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms? That was one of the questions — especially regarding homophobic Christian churches in Africa and the Caribbean — that led to the Intimate Conviction 2 conference, which ended Nov. 27.
Nigeria: #EndSARS is a huge moment in Nigeria’s queer history
Nigeria’s first LGBTQ online streaming platform launches
Nigeria: HIV self-testing has stakeholders at a policy impasse
For around $5 on Konga.com, one of Nigeria’s major e-commerce platforms, Nigerians can buy an oral HIV self-test kit. After ordering the product, Devex found that the kit was easy to use, but the package contained no information about where to get treatment, counseling, confirmation, or any other post-testing services following a positive result.