tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39260670669981771422024-02-22T11:34:23.666-08:00Letters to my AfricaNnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-25621181861116976302023-06-24T03:03:00.001-07:002023-06-24T03:10:13.133-07:00Excerpt from 'Abali'I want to fall madly in love with soccer. I want to know the chest beat that the last few minutes bring. I want to be genuinely excited about the start of a game because of the game. And not because there is chance that Ali may just rock my world if he wins.
You see, Ali is really a gentleman. Oh, he is the gentlest of them all. But if Chelsea wins a March I have learned to stay out of the way of his madness. First he pulls the top of his shirt over his afro and gives the air a good fuck and fisting.
And then the magic happens for me. He brings me a frosty glass of gin and tonic. Rides me to a pop. And then passes the night besides Raluchi's cot with his bottles and wipes on stand by.
But if Chelsea loses, he drives out briefly for a smoke, returns home in a few minutes and goes straight to bed. And no matter how much Raluchi squeals at night, this oga is not moving.
Of course all this fizzles off before the sun comes up and he is back to being the chatty and overly perceptive Ali who ...
At the Berger park in Lagos, although we were tribes and world's apart, we connected over a knowing smile about sex, it's naughtiness, it's being a taboo. In that brief moment everything between us thinned.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQozCoq8Yc1SNyHKOEuKvkXsRCWLTgABEpwzV66urOXekccKDLw72I35RST2SQsCer5LzscTbHe5VHyjsHdRzMXO-oBvVWhQkCCA9AQupUPVXURikiTw4Cjx46YsUhRPYbdzp5zBNxKRlSy88YYxhulcUNQJCD8dBbU8G6YFMMp2zr3v5an3CZFIU4y3J/s6000/pexels-uriel-mont-6315334.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQozCoq8Yc1SNyHKOEuKvkXsRCWLTgABEpwzV66urOXekccKDLw72I35RST2SQsCer5LzscTbHe5VHyjsHdRzMXO-oBvVWhQkCCA9AQupUPVXURikiTw4Cjx46YsUhRPYbdzp5zBNxKRlSy88YYxhulcUNQJCD8dBbU8G6YFMMp2zr3v5an3CZFIU4y3J/s320/pexels-uriel-mont-6315334.jpg"/></a></div>Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-91743042367726364242023-06-24T02:59:00.001-07:002023-06-24T02:59:07.078-07:00Can we see the world and not get lost?Its February 2020, I am at the OR Tambo airport and have just been charged R180 for a plastic wrap service by some black South African men. I don't have enough rands on me as I am on my way out. I have also never been asked to pay for a plastic wrap service. But you see, my bags have already been wrapped becau<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzki6DH5_yCyHumJ-wLtHyzXDToNg9-vohDNnmn6o2HEtnwxu22senLPy6Vkw7XzggXprI-pPiSd--xxMeFluAiiWTDONo5iStpd4RP30tuerzev785Uia535ObBvWJBK5fdclh0UXz_XvklVwlLjHklZXfb0rU8P7qwgapqNf4POfKeF7q-_jVnV6LGgN/s3830/pexels-rfstudio-4177747.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="3830" data-original-width="2736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzki6DH5_yCyHumJ-wLtHyzXDToNg9-vohDNnmn6o2HEtnwxu22senLPy6Vkw7XzggXprI-pPiSd--xxMeFluAiiWTDONo5iStpd4RP30tuerzev785Uia535ObBvWJBK5fdclh0UXz_XvklVwlLjHklZXfb0rU8P7qwgapqNf4POfKeF7q-_jVnV6LGgN/s400/pexels-rfstudio-4177747.jpg"/></a></div>se I let them, because I assume that it is free. I make an appeal for a lesser man and they refuse. The flip out their scissors and destroy the tight plastic wrap. And when they are done they move to wrap the suitcases of the person next on the queue. I am taken aback by this, but because nothing can get in the way of my craving for home, I brush it off and check in my luggage.
I have a 4hour or so layover in Addis Ababa and everyone has become a surgeon. They are all wearing masks. I joke to my friend that this must be Corona fashion week. Only that Corona is not a joke and people are really scared. The air hostesses wear face masks and gloves through out the flight and their mascara defined eyes look dead and cold. I catch one examining a sandwich closely and call on a few more and they have a short meeting to deliberate on that particular sandwich. Then they disperse. I already ate the sandwich handed over to me, so now a lot is running through my mind. Was the entire batch bad. Or had the bun caught Corona virus?
I am in Abuja Nigeria and some airport ground staff question my Nigerianness. I'm too tired and recurrently explain that I am a student and that I home to see my family. I am way over the luggage weight limit and I don't have the naira to pay for the weight above 20kg. AN angel points me in the direction to get ab affordable plastic bag to split the weight and reduce cost. After checking in someone comes to get my bags to be screened. I offer to assist him with moving my bags but he calmly insists that I let him do his job. My bags are checked and he wishes me a safe flight. People give me directions. People are kind and respectful and carrying on with life.
Nigeria feels different. South Africa feels different too. In Nigeria we are quite familiar with operating with or without electricity. In South Africa, without electricity time stops and shops close. For a few minutes I'm madly in love with my Nigeria and quite pitying of South Africa.
For a few years now my life has increasingly moved to SA. And the more I move away from home, the more I feel lost to my roots. Nigeria is no paradise. On several levels 'the struggle is real'. It gets very warm and then very dusty. Things can get terribly expensive and lives can change in a flash. But then I form part of the flock of young Nigerians who have left home to pursue a :better' life. The older and farther away I get, the less often I visit, the more lost I feel. The more I feel that a better life is sought at high a cost.
In South Africa, I am often asked how lucky I feel that I am in a country where sexual and gender minorities enjoy constitutional protection. I should feel lucky shouldn't I? I had felt lucky for a year or so. It was a nice liberating rush. But then it takes more legal protection to guarantee luck, and a good quality of life, a feel of trust and community. Even with the legal protection that gay men enjoy here, I often feel very lost and alone. And that my thirst to see the world could be self-destructive.Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-13173047175984438152022-06-20T15:22:00.005-07:002022-06-21T02:23:27.406-07:00Auntim Jane...She always begins with ‘hmmm, look at you.’You take. You take. You take from yourself till there is nothing left to listen to when you retire to your bed at night. You give yourself too little time to sleep or feel or be because when you were little you conjured the voice of a Nigerian aunty in your head. I called mine Auntim Jane. Auntim Jane always compares me with everyone that passes by. I go to bed in the evening and she reminds me that my mates are still at work trying to make ends meet. I’m at a relative’s wedding, Autim Jane reminds that the groom was my classmate and that the bride calls me uncle. You’d think she would stop there. She is right there next to me on my birthday, blowing cold breeze in my ear and telling me how all my mates are becoming either husbands, fathers or billionaires. Why should I get out out of bed, it is not like anything that I do will amount to anything, plus it is a Saturday and I’m exhausted from working late and trying to catch the last train back to Johannesburg? But no, Auntim Jane will quote ‘a little sleep, a little slumber and poverty comes knocking’. Auntim Jane likes the sound of her voice. I like the sound of her voice too. She always begins with ‘hmmm, look at you.’
Auntim Jane is probably Igbo, but she has that common Nigerian fusion of British and American accent infused with Igbo words. I conjured her smell too. She smells like freshly ironed damask with the musk still trying to settle in. She also smells like peppered chicken from a Nigerian wedding. She does not touch me. It is not in her nature to, but she makes sure she makes eye contact, while she speaks of how fortunate and brilliant everyone is and how more stupid I am becoming. The day I was called to bar, she was there in my room with her red gele. ‘Is it not your mates that had first class. Do they have two heads?’. The day I got my masters degree, she was in the stall next to mine in the rest room eavesdropping as I cried my eyeballs out because my parents were not there with me. She told me, ‘hurry up, they about to start’.
After every break up, she is right there in my room handing me tissues as she outlines everything that I did wrong in the relationship, while simultaneously helping me select potential hookups from apps. She is very gifted, she knows how to pick them.
Auntim Jane likes to fill the room with her voice. She likes to fill my head with her echo. She tells me to be home early just because. And when I’m home, she knits her thickness around me. She tells me to study more. Auntim Jane is drawn to books, she thinks that there is always something interesting in them, or that someone new has figured an interesting way to say something old. She is not always right, but by the time I realise it, I have wasted another few months not living.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqXISxuaWcKLJLEcoJ7uLbYVHlg2P3sjEU7-yIKI5pAI5PLyCq79c6EIeYe8QEKPTB2ojo9RAQ1M-f_CZpt8EGp9VHU7H31GhxX6t_a-1satrZIFLgT34uGtxo03UEvmowZ4DMm7cJ9Wzw0l7WVZSLS6s0cmg5cohlAdOcOwMpY7esHiGt9sIVs0FgA/s2880/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-21%20at%2012.18.47%20AM.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="2880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqXISxuaWcKLJLEcoJ7uLbYVHlg2P3sjEU7-yIKI5pAI5PLyCq79c6EIeYe8QEKPTB2ojo9RAQ1M-f_CZpt8EGp9VHU7H31GhxX6t_a-1satrZIFLgT34uGtxo03UEvmowZ4DMm7cJ9Wzw0l7WVZSLS6s0cmg5cohlAdOcOwMpY7esHiGt9sIVs0FgA/s400/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-21%20at%2012.18.47%20AM.png"/></a></div>
Photo sourced from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrpj4I8uoANnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-47351237052042256072022-03-21T23:42:00.003-07:002022-03-21T23:42:57.385-07:00I want it to be okay to be you (lost draft from 2018)Dear Omomi,<br />
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It's a Sunday evening and the darkness weaves through hillcrest like the tracks of a dense wig. From my window I can see the yellow that marks the black road in the TUKS res in tracks of parallel yellow and white that underlines some distance away. I am with my thoughts, still and uncertain. I am thinking and wishing very wildely about you.<br />
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Things are not exactly great at the moment. But things could be a lot worse too. I feel nothing. Absolutely nothing.Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-22880402346938337092021-09-10T13:34:00.001-07:002021-09-10T13:34:08.729-07:00Odogwu, the 'boys' that impress me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><br />It is the women that decide our names. It is the women that acknowledge the paths that our spirits and bodies will take through the world. It is the women that see most clearly the fate the gods have attached to us. It is women that ‘see’ period. It was in 2020 that my mum named me Odogwu. I am not sure when she decided this but the first time I heard her say it to me she was happy. It gave me a very heady feeling. She was very impressed with the gesture that I made. It made her very happy and she danced. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Odogwu is a very special Igbo word, a title. The Odogwu title is hardly ever addressed to young men or men generally unless they have done something that a credible mass of people refers to as incredible. Perhaps something continuous, beautiful, grand, exciting. I do not know the literal interpretation of the title ‘Odogwu’. But I know that it implies that someone had become great. Great in the way of a legend. Great in the way that the person had crossed the line and that this person and the act done had become unforgettable, indelible, incredible. A good Odogwu metaphor would be Odumegwu Ojukwu and perhaps the fictional character of Okonkwo in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. So simply put, ‘Odogwu’ is a man, an incredible, extraordinary man.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvdo6_COFTa0yPtgkquc7q4vZXgtOtOd0hCaY9qTQSjGGglv0BmS2sdKt69pusa_Tgjl0QZGB7dShKAgG1oiDV9cUkh9GfEhTZKM1eRYw9V4wpr8oF-4IFaDOPjn8IAQTdi4Sk0jiNY4p6/s2048/pexels-khris-kunta-kuntelais-7171858.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvdo6_COFTa0yPtgkquc7q4vZXgtOtOd0hCaY9qTQSjGGglv0BmS2sdKt69pusa_Tgjl0QZGB7dShKAgG1oiDV9cUkh9GfEhTZKM1eRYw9V4wpr8oF-4IFaDOPjn8IAQTdi4Sk0jiNY4p6/w426-h640/pexels-khris-kunta-kuntelais-7171858.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "segoe ui", roboto, oxygen, cantarell, "helvetica neue", ubuntu, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Khris Kunta Kuntelais</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>I have met a few men that I have considered Odogwu in my life. Perhaps the bar is a bit low for me because, as my friends say and I have come to learn, it does not take much to impress me. But there is so much in our world to be thankful for if we open our eyes to the god in everything. Men impress me. Men have impressed me. So many men have impressed me. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Growing up in Nigeria there was no accessible code on how to be a queer man. So this was the trajectory: get to puberty, realise that things that should happen chemically and emotionally that are not happening, wait, and just wait until someone else ‘wiser’ realises that you might ‘say ekaaro like that’ and then makes a move on you and opens up yourself to you in way that you are hardly prepared for. Perhaps queerness in a young boy is a bit too obvious because he is not like the rest of his peers, may not be autopilot hormonal, and is often clueless on where to look. This was the case for me. I was not sure, and there was nowhere to look until people started pointing me out. ‘You’re different’. ‘They will like your type.’ ‘You better be careful when you move into that hostel’. And then finally someone called me a homosexual to my face. I may have been 15 or 16 at the time, but I launched at him physically with everything that I could summon. I hit. I scratched. I threw the closest moveable things I could get hold of at him. He defended himself. An enraged man defending his masculinity is quite the danger. A queer man unaccepting of his queerness can be quite chaotic, bloody. The boy ran. I paused. I shook all over in anger, then I cried. I picked up what I could from my locker and left the hostel. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">At this point, I had had a few trysts. I may have been smitten by the appearances of a few boys. But to be referred to as gay in public by another man was a jab at my pride. A few months after that experience I was terribly confused by the rise in the ferocity of my attraction to boys. Often I would curl myself up in bed and cry when the desire kept me awake. Some classmates and a certain staff at my high school had taken it upon themselves to fish out boys who may have acted on their attractions with other boys. There was a long suspicion-based list being compiled already and people were only looking for proof and compiling evidence. I heard cases of beatings, blackmail, and extortion from some boys that I had been with and other boys that I had known. Years later I would learn that my name was indeed on that list, but they had found no proof. Perhaps the investigators were as clueless as I was, and still am, as regards how to be a queer man, what to look out for in a queer man. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Men impress me, and perhaps being queer is as simple as that. There is no telling. Of course, there are so many men who are either dead or invisible to me until becoming Odogwu, incredible. And so easily they can fall from that light, in my eyes, as well. There have been cases where men snatch the light as soon they come into my view, some take leisurely walks towards it, while others by their very nature repel being either respectful or delightful. Of course, I am me and my tastes are not universal. However, I have been fortunate to have been impressed by a few men that started out as strangers and then became Odogwu, and sometimes it was a case of being in the right place, at the right time, under the ‘right’ circumstances. Interestingly, most of the time, I find that although these men become such striking symbols for me I have no access to them romantically or sexually and vice versa. Being flesh, blood, and hormonal, I often imagine that this inaccessibility is a cosmic joke God enjoys playing on me. I have painfully learned to rationalise this as God teaching me that even as a queer man it is in my stars that so many remarkable men will build bridges into and across my heart that are neither for romantic or sexual purposes, but for very important and life-changing purposes nonetheless. I will share a few of these ‘cosmic jokes’.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the turn of the millennium, short-hand was drummed into Nigerian secondary school pupils. However, short-hand fascinated me not because I thought that strokes and dots were exciting, but because my teacher was stunning. He was Fulani in the impeccable way that young educated Fulani men can be: soft on the eyes, androgynous, warm in demeanour and firmly grounded. In my first year at secondary school, I was one of those students who hugged the front row seats in class. I can still remember the fragrance of his well-ironed, sharply-edged military uniform because somehow he always ended in front of my seat where he thumbed through his lesson notes. At this time, I was 11 unaware of my queerness but fiercely drawn to his light and firm voice, how he stood firmly feet apart, and the ease with which he commanded the students’ attention in spite of his androgyny. His was not the softness of submission, it was a whiplash. I was a big child, with swollen cheeks, sway in the hips, cherry red lips, ashamed of my girlishness and so frightened of other boys that I wanted to varnish. And there he was in my class every Tuesday and Thursday, a stack of ironies, but an Odogwu in his own right. Odogwu’s are comfortable in their skin and take their place in the world along with their gifts and grit. We never spoke outside of the classroom. I changed schools not so long after and I have not seen him since then, but for so many years my questions welled. The most pressing being, how can a man so soft so slender so young so beautiful be more ‘terrifying’ commanding twice the respect, interest, attention, and promptness than older stronger-looking men in his field.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I often catch myself believing that being ‘terrifying’ is an important aspiration for a Nigerian queer man who hopes to take his place in Nigerian spaces. This is not because ‘terrifying’ is such a virtuous thing to be. I clarify here there is a huge difference between being ‘terrifying’ and being a bully. While being can be deeply attractive, there is hardly a thing more foul, tactless, and unflattering than being a bully. Being terrifying as a minority often is sufficient insulation from violence not just for the terrifying person but for the community that he marches with. So what makes a man ‘terrifying’? What makes him that powerful? I was watching Bridgerton the other and the character Lady Danbury while addressing little Simon shares that she was coy as a little girl, but had to brace herself to take her space in the world by becoming ‘the most terrifying creature’ in any room that she entered. ‘Sharpened my mind, my wit, and my wardrobe’, she said.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I once met a man who wielded a sharp mind, wit, and wardrobe. He was a boy when we met. We were both boys and in the same school. Throughout our time in that school, his name was on so many lips because he was richly gifted and in every way imaginable. His grace was woven through his bloodline. He was both an academic and social alchemist. It is usually difficult for a person to be deemed the one, over and over again but it was happening right before the eyes of hundreds of everyone. And the best part, they all agreed. I came quite late to the show because I transferred into the school in my second year, so I did not know what all the raucous was about. I had gone from being the front-row student to the student who was too unsettled by being in a boarding school to bother about the front row. When I finally met him, I did not see what the raucous was about. He had visited my class to speak to his brother in hushed tones in between the dust- harassed louver blades. Although the window was not so far off from where I sat, I heard nothing remotely incredible about how he sounded. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In a few years we were in the same class. It was the era of boy bands and love songs in Nigeria. On one quiet morning after the morning assembly, the boys in my class began drumming on their desks and technical drawing boards in the corner of our classroom. They were taking turns on Psquare’ s Bizzy Body, Styl Plus Olufunmi, Da Nativee’ Draw Nearer. The classroom was on fire and boys from other classes poured in to watch. The boys in our class were having a fest, singing out there hearts in newly acquired baritone voices like they had just jumped out of romantic comedy films. Of course there were those of us who were backup singers providing the surround sound, and then there were those of us who pretended to have nothing to do with it while we tapped away under desks turning occasionally to check who the mic had passed to. It felt like Nigerian version Backstreet boys doing covers. In the heat of all that, Rackass boy began DJinee’s Ego. Now there are hardly a few solo artists who could weave the wind that Ego spun when it was recently released. Something about that song was electric. And Rackass boy sang Ego matching the snap of his fingers to the sway of his hips, to the crest of his pitch, to the throb of his biceps, to the oscillating bounce of his shoulders, socked toes pumping against the dust. Perhaps it was the song. Perhaps it was the beats. Perhaps it was the spirit of the artist DJinee, but that morning the boy came alive and it was like I saw him for the very first time. He did not become an Odugwu right away, but I got a sense of what the raucous was about. There was something incredible about him that was almost unmatchable, that would always make a way for itself and find a stage for itself across hearts and across the world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As if by divine design, a few months later this boy built a bridge into my heart. Suddenly, we were together all the time. When we connected it was so intense that it felt like we were cramming five years of conversation into a few months and trying to fill each minute with catching up. At the time, the hormones were running amok. While my shoulders were yet to broaden and my voice yet to crack, my sexual desires were robbing me of sleep and focus. When the harmattan came, I would often feel the wind gush at me with dust, chills, raving testosterone through my blood with an unmistakable pull. And this pull was often only either a pull for a pulls sake, or it was driven this growing closeness to the raucous boy. raucous boy was reckless in the way that he advanced towards me through the months. No one could be more present, more attentive. I was reckless in the way I saw him, thought of him. His relations to me was quite a shock because it was sudden as it was. I did not understand it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was nothing out of the ordinary that I had made a new friend. But being friends with someone who is himself the spotlight tends to attract a new number of eyes to the ‘newcomer’. From being almost invisible to being thrust into the glare of many eyes. I did not understand it. I terribly enjoyed his company, it gave me such a rush, it felt like a rebirth. With every time he stepped up to me in public, I felt like the sun had found me and wings were breaking free from every part of me. He was both an academic and social alchemist. Because he saw him, everyone else did. There was something incredible about him that was almost unmatchable, everything he ‘touched’ caught fire, and everyone he ‘saw’ turned gold. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Some other boys in our class started talking. ‘One day we will know what is happening’ one of his friends said to me. ‘High-class babe’ another said. I knew what they meant. But I was not sure what cut me more, their intrusion or that they would wait till Raucous-boy and I were apart to approach me with their twaddle. Perhaps because I was a teenager with the valiance of toothpick. Raucous-boy knew what they were saying in his absence. We often traded this gossip when he caught me sobbing. But he carried on more visibly with me, more friendly with his everyone. At some point he moved from his original seat in the class to share a seat with. me. Reckless! He was giving everyone who had something to say a middle finger. So while I was overthinking their comments calculating ways to avoid Rackass boy, not see him, not talk to him, he was drew closer and dared everyone to say pim! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would often blame myself for soiling his reputation with the suggestion of some ‘indecency’ with me. I sat with this guilt for most of our friendship and for a few years after he walked out of my life as suddenly as he walked in, breaking me a little. He took his bridge with him while I held on tightly to the wings, gold and sun. Raucous boy was an Odogwu. Odogwus are not afraid to stand out or make room for others. Odogwus are not afraid to make unpopular choices and curate their own social circles and destinies. Odogwus are not afraid to follow their hearts. It was in this friendship with Odogwu Raucous boy that my admiration for Pete Edochie was cultivated. It was in this friendship that I fell in love with Djinee and Paul Play Dairo. It is was in this friendship that I called the bluff of quite a number of bullies and began to grow more comfortable in my own skin, heart and love. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Navigating a man’s love is one of the most challenging parts of being male and same-sex loving in a world designed to eraicate queer persons. Same-sex love is quite the calculux because while there are books and movies and songs and poetry about the flaming passions between men and women, every instance of loving the similar feels like its walking into a cold dark space. You know, like the world before it became the world, before it had any value or meaning. In Nigeria the plot of same-sex love has to find its own way. When I began to think of a man’s love it was not because I was romantically involved with anyone - not counting the imaginary relationship with Paul Play Dairo and Saint Obi on whom I crushed so much. It was not also because I relished the idea of intimate same-sex companionship. I began thinking more particularly of man’s love because of the men I saw in Nollywood movies, particularly the gang of Armadas and character of Ahanna in Amaka Igwe’s Rattle Snake.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was 1995 and Igbo Nollywood video films were blowing up. Every Friday after work, dad usually brought home new colourfully packed video cassettes. At the time we had the family tradition of watching Nollywood films during the weekend, especially late into Saturday nights. You see, this was not every Saturday because power failure was more common than to have film nights and we did not have a generator. So whenever it was Saturday and the power was on, it was really special. I enjoyed that our Saturday film nights brought everyone together in the living room. I particularly looked forward to sitting my dad’s legs, my back pillowed by the sea-saw of his oscillating breathing belly. The first Rattle Snake video cassette he brought was a rented one. It was the first part, and looking back I could understand his resistance to buy one. We had just seen Nneka the pretty serpent and us kids were now too terrified of cats and of the dark. So it made sense that another snake titled movie would have to be checked before being bought. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We came to find that unlike Nneka the Pretty Serpent, there was neither witchcraft, scratching nor shapeshifting in Rattle Snake. It was quite the opposite. There were several stunning men there. Rattle Snake followed a young Igbo man, Ahanna, who had been dispossessed of his family wealth by his uncle Odinaka and had to make a living in Lagos by pickpocketing. His antiques endeared him to another Lagos boy, Peter, who then christens him ‘Snake’ because of how Ahanna sprint-slithers through the crowd while escaping from the hot pursuit of his victim. The impressed Peter, although well provided by his family, had a taste for truancy, so he teams up with Ahanna in his craft. With time Ahanna and Peter are arrested, convicted and serve an incomplete prison sentence. On their early release because of Peter’s father’s political clout, they had evolved into advanced criminals and went on to recruit more boys to form the Armadas gang. The Armadas gang blew up, they were a group of stunning and successful young arm-robbers who took on extremely risky high-end mission. The members of Armadas had a tight, intimate, almost homoerotic bond, more close shaving than male group movies that Nollywood had ever made before then and perhaps till date. Unlike Living in Bondage were the male cult members were portrayed constantly shrouded in fear, displays of wealth and surrounded by women, the members of the Armadas were men stripped to their most intimate vulnerabilities whenever they were together. Rattle Snake was made in such a way that the Igbo man’s masculinity was zoomed in on, especially on parts of him that are usually inaccessible, his heart, hurt and loving. It is no surprise that the making of this film was led by a woman, Amaka Igwe. It is the women that see. In my eyes, Armadas were portrayed as an army of lovers, co-creating, co-planning, and very good at communicating, particularly at listening. And no matter what was at stake in their missions, nothing was more important than each other. Did I mention that the members of Armadas were hot! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">With a man’s love comes evolution and the evolving Ahanna began to want more safety and stability for the Armadas and for himself. For him armed robbery was only a means to an end. However, for Peter armed robbery was the end and such an allure, he had a taste for crime and the chase. The only thing Peter wanted more of was to continue perpetually in his trade. The clash in the worldviews of Ahanna and Peter is what tore the Armadas. Ahanna used his armed robbery loot to educate his sister into a lawyer and his brother into a medical doctor. He built several businesses for himself. Ahanna went on date Peter’s sister Amara at some point. Amara got pregnant but Ahanna married someone else, Adaugo. While Ahanna, left crime, supported Amara financially while embracing his new life with Adaugo, Peter felts distraught, betrayed and sought to draw blood. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The journey and the relationship between Ahanna and Peter is charged. The group dynamic of the Armadas is charged. Expansive ranges of men’s love and emotions for and around each and those tethered to their hearts bloom explosively. In Rattle Snake, strong Igbo men cried, laughed, listened, got bruised, healed, fell in love, got distraught, fought each other, schemed to hurt each other, forgave at some point, basked in their unforgiveness at another. Most importantly, there were so many time that strong men did a lot of listening, being confused, being afraid and running away. A man’s love can be so complex, yet so simple, so human. As an Igbo queer man I am thankful that I have such references like Ahanna, Peter and the Armadas, Odogwus, as references for the scope of a man’s emotions, a man’s love and the dynamics of same-sex intimacy. Nollywood has not produced so many movies like Rattle Snake, so more and more the legitimacy of a man’s vast emotional range seems to be a myth. The older I get the harder it is to remember that a man’s love for another man can be deep, complex, vicious, protective, unforgiving and flawed. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is no wonder that I went through my twenties expecting that there was out there man who could give me the kind of friendship that Ahanna represented, the kind of friendship that the Armadas shared. This was a struggle in Nigeria and perhaps also in South Africa where I am presently in Nigeria, because the emotions of men are curated, by other men and even women, to hide. God forbid that men can love deeply and hopelessly and admit it. God forbid that a man can learn to acknowledge his fear or anxiety or attraction and just sit with it. God forbid that a man gets confused or crazy or demonstrates his submission.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I often find that I make an effort to disappear when my heart shifts and tears rush to my eyes like they do at my sisters’ weddings. The older I get the more I am inclined to cave into myself when I am stuck, constantly and increasingly underestimating the love of my family and others in my life. I am quick to fetch my cape and fly to the rescue when I am vested in a person or project but I am very untrusting, emasculated and ashamed when the same is done for me by someone younger or someone female. Also I catch my resentment welling up when someone older does not ‘move’ as firmly as I expect him to. This is all twaddle because in spite of my knowledge, exposure and travel I unconsciously still hold on to the notion of universal invincibility and supremacy of a man’s ‘masculinity'.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As if things are not bad enough as they are, I often find that even as a queer man in the unconscious assumption of my invincibility, I rob the women in my life the space to learn, to fall, to rise, to grow. And when they defy my ‘umbrella’, I feel alienated and hurt. Of course these are alongside other instances where my ‘rescuing’ and affections for women have pushed aside, not because the women in question want to grow or make their own mistakes, but because these women are aware of my queerness and as such untrusting of my masculinity. So at my best, I am lucid and very sensitive to my ultra-romanticising of older men and underestimating of women and younger persons. In these lucid moments my approach is to be present and while calm notify whoever is involved that my love may not be the truth but it is here for the having should it be ever needed. ‘I’ll always be here should you need me’, I have learned to say this and then I sit on my hands and look the other way, listen deeply while looking back at intervals depending on my perceived autonomy of this person and my proximity.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The demonstration of a man’s love besides being perceived as such taboo can be very dangerous to a queer man living in a context where the same-sex attraction is both criminal, immoral, and treacherous to the community. In Nigeria, the danger of a queer man’s love or the harm that it exposes him to is curated by his socio-economic class, communal affiliation, physically built, knowledge of self-defense techniques, proximity to defensive tools, and understanding the social psychology of dangerous people and contexts in his locale. To put it simply, very few people will walk into a visibly heavily guarded situation with the guts to harm or blackmail a queer person, even if the intention is there. Simply put, to be safe surround yourself with ‘knives’, a safety protocol, and make it clear that they can cut to the white meat if they need to.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So more often than not, while in Nigeria, I avoid walking into relationships where I am not visibly guarded by the public glare or at most the presence of my family. Anyone who cannot walk past these walls and comfortably navigate this curated intimacy is simply a high flying risk. I am now well into my 30s and I find that there is nothing more protective than introducing a friend that I want to take seriously to my parents. A friend that I can not bring home to my family is not a friend that I would be interested in. The implication of this is that in Nigeria where most queer men cannot afford to be seen in public with either their love interests or other visibly queer men, I have slashed my friendship pool by a substantial chunk. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am at peace with having access to fewer male friends with a higher chance at longevity and honesty. This is not because honesty and longevity are the most exciting things to aspire to in a relationship, but because queer men who have accepted their queerness and the legitimacy of their friendships with other queer men are not as hazardous to one’s mental and sexual health as queer men who are still at war with themselve. Not that a man accepting his queerness makes him any more or less of a man. I find that when it comes to building bridges there may be great potential but very little possibility for a heart yet chaotic and unbelieving. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I made peace with my queerness a few years ago and came out to my family shortly after. Before my acceptance of myself, I viewed every emotional connection that I made as a mistake, a manifestation of a controllable flaw, of my failure. Whenever I realized a budding connection I would freak out and take it God on my knees asking for redemption, often prescribing my own penance. My acceptance of myself is a continuous journey even long after coming out to my family. But one of the most striking perks of my acceptance journey is that I am more open to and forgiving of many parts of myself as well as those of my family. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is no longer strange for persons that deeply care about me to resist the idea of my queerness or to even throw tantrums. It is not strange for me to be hurt from their resistance to my queerness or to interpret it as plain hostility. However, I am learning every day from the Igbo saying ‘Onye kwe, Chi ya e kwe’. The universe aligns where and when you direct it to, where and when you manifest, where and when you believe. Aligning may take a very long time and the pace of it is often outside our control but it is surely on the way. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It would be fun to wake up to a world where everyone is aligned to inclusivity. It would great to not have to smile and sashay away when aunties ask me when I intend to marry a girl and make babies. It would be less tedious not to have to set up so many walls when I am seeking out companionship or even worry that I may not get a job when I return home to Nigeria because my CV visibly screams queer rights interests. However, I would not trade in the organic evolution that comes with being present in my journey as an Igbo Nigeria male person through academics, faith, work, and life. I am still learning about how best to be a man in the world. I am still learning about how best a man can love another man in the world. Navigating a man’s love is one of the most challenging aspects of being a same-sex loving man. A woman’s fury is nothing compared to the chaos of four traumatised scrotums in a relationship. Nothing has terrified me more. But I am open to becoming more and more an Igbo man growing and evolving into his masculinity, queerness and love. This trajectory of becoming has played a great role in enhancing my experience of love, both mine and the love of others directed at me. Increasingly I thaw and grow in places that I did not know existed for me.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In some of these growing places, men impress men. So many of these men I hold close to my heart and they continue to inspire the man that I am and the one that I am becoming. So many of these men have built bridges into and across my heart and some of them so far sexually and romantically from me, but yet firmly holding and marching with me. In 2020, when my mum called me Odogwu, years after I came out to her as queer, it meant the world to me that we as family were marching on amidst all the chaos that Nigeria can be queer persons, to the point where my masculinity is as legitimate and incredible as those of all these men that impress. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-92223377921816411162019-09-30T19:51:00.009-07:002021-09-10T14:32:35.833-07:00No issue should be beyond the participation of queer persons, it is our world too<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
feel greatly blessed to be in South Africa today, to share in the experience of
one of the most beautiful things that South Africa is known for: the idea that we
can be who we want to be; how we want to be and wherever we want to be, in spite
of our actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity. Nonetheless,
in the past few months I have been deeply plagued by the thought that queer
persons can die, have died, at the hands of the marginal stories we as queer
persons write, tell, immerse ourselves in and constrain ourselves to, to the
exclusion of other stories. And this is how we do it:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
we write, we must always begin with our desire. It always has to be only about
our desire and how dangerous it must be to be resident in our homes. Perhaps we
can write about our childhood if we dare. We must write about bad our childhood
was. About how every social, religious, cultural, media and literary canon that
we had access to were fired against us -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>because nothing exists, can exist, outside of what we can find, have
found. For our dear lives, we must not mention anything good about our childhood.
We must insist that nothing in it made us laugh or love or swirl around mad with laughter and love.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
must always talk about how backward and evil everyone else is because they neither
understand the word ‘gay’ nor relate when we speak our sophisticated gibberish
at them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
there must be sex, lots and lots of sex. This is because sex is the only way we can live out our diversity. This is the only expression of liberty that we could
authentically and believably be interested in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #e8e8e8; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "oxygen" , "cantarell" , "helvetica neue" , "ubuntu" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Photo by </span><span style="background-color: #e8e8e8; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "oxygen" , "cantarell" , "helvetica neue" , "ubuntu" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.pexels.com/@mccutcheon?utm_content=attributionCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pexels" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Sharon McCutcheon </a></span><span style="background-color: #e8e8e8; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "oxygen" , "cantarell" , "helvetica neue" , "ubuntu" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">from </span><span style="background-color: #e8e8e8; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "oxygen" , "cantarell" , "helvetica neue" , "ubuntu" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-walking-while-holding-rainbow-colored-flag-2433122/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pexels" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Pexels</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
we write about ourselves we must neither mention that we are deeply flawed like
everyone else nor how deeply flawed we are. Of course, our queerness cancels
out all our flaws. We are simply, delectably only ever endangered targets of
homophobia. We can do no wrong!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
love? Our love must never be written out in its various ethnic, gender and generational
complexities. Insist that love is only ever sexual, verbally expressive and
does not exist until it is smeared generously across Instagram.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
we discuss our non-heterosexuality or our human rights, we should forget other
layers of who we are and other things that we are connected to like natioanality,
age, race, socio-economic standing, faith, the environment, the world economy,
the politics of corruption, the baggage that comes with migration and so forth.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
should not matter that Nigerians and other foreign nationals who come here to
South Africa for reasons including fleeing persecution on the grounds of their sexual
orientations get attacked and killed on the grounds of their foreign
nationality. It should not matter that women get attacked the most, go missing, brutally
violated sporadically because they are women regardless of anything or anyone
else that they are connected to.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It should not matter that South African LGBTI
rights organisations seem functionally passive and silent in the face of issues
like xenophobia, migration, climate change, femicide and corruption because it
really is none of their business. Of course it cannot be queer business to
bother about such things especially when these organisations fly in foreign
nationals from all over the continent, interact with the economy, depend on the
environment for its existence and functionality.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
do ourselves, our work and journeys in the world as queer persons a great
disservice when we decide to cherry pick what issues concern us and what issues
do not; what we write about and what we do not; when we move, take action, collaborate
and when we do not.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
was visiting Nigeria when the media churned over with material on xenophobic violence<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>here in South Africa. I was scared stiff,
everyone was scared for me. On my way back through the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja,
a Nigerian immigration officer asked me, ‘How can you be going back there when
everyone is coming back home?’ He cared enough to ask me, although I had grown
my hair into locks and wore my rainbow emblem proudly. Although he, part of the
ordinary mass of Nigerians socialised to frown at non-normative expressions of gender,
would think me too queer to matter, he engaged with the part of my humanity that
he shared, my Nigerianness. He cared for this Nigerianness enough for it to broke
his hate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Inspired
by this, I suggest that it is important to show and write queer people as
people first. Centre us in the mainstream the way we really are. Insist that we
are a functional , relevant, regular part of the society. Untell our ‘queerness’
by constantly interacting and expanding what is believable, what is really
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Show
queer persons doing the mundane things that we do ordinarily like everyone else:
eating, raising kids, battling illness, standing in queues, being anxious about
interviews, working hard, making mistakes, making money, losing money and so forth.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
we as queer persons write our stories, engage with our work and live, we should
insist that we belong. We should insist that the world is our home and the
universe’s gift to us. There is a place for fighting back. But there is also a
place for defending what we have fought for, by dropping the arms and building
along with those who build. There is a place for being part of the solution for
the larger world beyond our little rainbow corners and meetings. As such in our
stories, in our lives, no space, no issue should be beyond our imagination, occupation,
presence, engagement and participation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">‘They say Lagos men do not just chase women, they
snatch them…This is Lagos. Lagos is different from home. Lagos is big. You must
be careful here. You are a mere child. Lagos men are too deep for you. Don’t
think you are cleve. You are not. You can never be cleverer than a Lagos man. I
am older than you are, so take my advise’</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">-An
excerpt from ‘This is Lagos’ by Flora Nwapa </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">in <i>Daughters of Africa</i>(1992)</span><span style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
name is Nnanna Ikpo. I am a Nigerian lawyer and storyteller. My research interrogates
the place of narrative fiction and story telling as tools for human right
advocacy, the teaching and learning of law. Particularly, the human rights of sexual
and gender minorities in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stories
matter. Stories are how we engage with the world and with each other. Stories
are how we question the world, disrupt and reconstruct it. The stories of Flora
Nwapa and the stories that she told are some of those that have reconstructed
the world. Flora Nwapa’s stories can still do more ‘damage’ if brought into the
right spaces and unpacked in the context of expedient things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1s7Hw6oohcuJHcE6ewtyXLQ_LjYVYa7b58dhO81E2ej91rJjIzJi-0ZCj0r9_NqeKFO0C0yO3tY-MFhxaRLunvoh0LJrJfdEvHhyPEGeQDM5N5hza6GnyrO17SmxToPgX8weOgGZiJe_I/s1600/flora_nwapa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1s7Hw6oohcuJHcE6ewtyXLQ_LjYVYa7b58dhO81E2ej91rJjIzJi-0ZCj0r9_NqeKFO0C0yO3tY-MFhxaRLunvoh0LJrJfdEvHhyPEGeQDM5N5hza6GnyrO17SmxToPgX8weOgGZiJe_I/s400/flora_nwapa.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flora Nwapa, Nigerian author and publisher</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Flora
Nwapa is quite synonymous with, to put it safely, cultural feminism. At a time
when only a few where she was could put a word to it. After Deh Onyeka told me
about his aunt, I asked my mum about her.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Hmmm’, ‘Flora’, my mum said, ‘Flora kpakwara
ike o. Mgbe umu nwanyi bu umu nwanyi. Mgbe unu nmunyi ne me ihe. Owuro kita. Onye
puta okpo owe ya feminist’. My mum went on to name Flora Nwapa among the cadre
of other Nigerian women such as Magaret Ekpo and Funmilayo Ransom-Kuti. The
naughty girls that shook Nigeria post-independence.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Flora’s
writing is steeped in her culture and the events of her time. Although she is
generally considered as one of those who wrote back to negative perceptions of
Africans by colonialist, she was also considered one of those who reconstructed
Nigerian femaleness quite differently from what many at the time considered
safe, proper, believable. She and her writings were erased from among the
lot of what the world expected or thought, expects and thinks of Nigerian
women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtFOkGhfdv9xL2R6H8va9Q_QC7sgYik0305XizoQQ-9V2_kyrathEnituAe7ZhgMfIYNKl3niSMBN9PHQXZOC3t7EcEDJpqYEqYkgBG8QzfwP80XIjmi9W7Xn290jHL2V_T6fx4r0QCcW/s1600/efuru.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtFOkGhfdv9xL2R6H8va9Q_QC7sgYik0305XizoQQ-9V2_kyrathEnituAe7ZhgMfIYNKl3niSMBN9PHQXZOC3t7EcEDJpqYEqYkgBG8QzfwP80XIjmi9W7Xn290jHL2V_T6fx4r0QCcW/s320/efuru.jpg" width="215" /></a><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Flora Nwapa's female characters make choices, change theirs minds, run away, steer families and make money, are influential, look men in the eye and just are.
Her characters hold men by their hands, initiate running away and elope leading the way. Her female characters
insist on trading and leaving it to their men. The women firmly believe that they are more effective in sustaining their families by buying and selling than cultivating the soil. Ma Flora,
although the naughtiest of them all, was real, very real. Her realness has
paved a way for a lot in terms of how Nigeria and the world engages with feminism. Our
perceptions and expectations, the things that we allow ourselves to be shocked
by.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Last
year we celebrated the 15<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the emergence of the
protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of
Women in Africa (The Maputo Protocol). Feminism is a hot topic again. Yet
within it, there is great difficulty in coming to terms with ‘Who is a woman?’,
‘Who is a feminist?’. I won’t join the hassle because ‘it is all politics’ like
Ma Flora would say.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80UqvfuanLV20GtGSmF9rOrYi5ug9O4SaZtOAqxR95pdzkHkW8vdL9fiWfXMZf4WJAansQK9WhpGk5iKgi018_pp8pqERp3q7Si2fkp1TxtqPdPLzUhOWD3cjAQCmZWzWH3yDYRBfsarG/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-09-30+at+6.28.23+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80UqvfuanLV20GtGSmF9rOrYi5ug9O4SaZtOAqxR95pdzkHkW8vdL9fiWfXMZf4WJAansQK9WhpGk5iKgi018_pp8pqERp3q7Si2fkp1TxtqPdPLzUhOWD3cjAQCmZWzWH3yDYRBfsarG/s320/Screen+Shot+2019-09-30+at+6.28.23+PM.png" width="241" /></a><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
women’s’ right framework has refused to come together on the continent
effectively, because we insist on erasing certain types of issues and certain
types of women from the core workings of things. We still erase the naughty
girls: women who have sex with women, women with unconventional gender
expressions, women with ambiguous chromosomal and/or physiological makeups,
women who transitions into womanhood as opposed to being born, older women, women
who are not the stereotype. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
was all politics. But now these politics have become unfortunate. These
politics have become dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Flora
Nwapa’s message was clear. Among other things, I believe that she also demanded
and still demands that we make room for everyone. Representation matters,
visibility of every kind of women matters and is powerful. Make room for the
naughty girl, in how she lives, how she loves, works, eats, travels, dreams and
what she chooses to dream about, what she chooses to stand for, provided she
does not endanger anyone. Provided endangering is contextual and critically
engaged with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "open sans light" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
stories of the naughty girls matter in conversation around the human rights of
Women. Especially stories ebe ona kpa-ike. Especially stories where naughty girls
are strong, where they cross the line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">‘<i>One innocent igbo man wrote an appreciation
of you...He said you are not a Feminist, not even a feminist with a small ‘f’.
How those of us who knew you well had laughed. How was he to know that most of
your last visits to London were funded by the Feminist movement, and that your
last talk at the Feminist Bookshop in Upper Street, London, had a strong Cultural
Feminist message? How was he to know that what us Africa women writers resented
In the Feminist movement was the fact that the name was from the west, and that
we still cherish our families, that we value most our relevant cultures?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is why some of
us claim to call it by other names: cultural feminism or feminism with a small ‘f’,
some say womanism, but at the end of the road, we are all working towards the
same end- the dignity of the woman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I think you are having
the last laugh over all</span></i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">of this. That bell-like laughter with one
foot in the air and your elegantly arranged head-tie thrown backwards, saying, “Let
our men believe what they like Buchi, what does it really matter? It’s all
politics”’<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">An excerpt from </span></i><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Nwanyi
oma, biko nodunma’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">a
tribute by Dr Buchi Emecheta to Flora Nwapa in <i>Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa: Critical and Theoretical Essays.</i></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"><i>'If Chinua Achebe and Flora Nwapa and Emeka Ike had not written the books they did, when they did, and how they did, I would perhaps not have had the emotional courage to write my own books. Today I honour them and all the writers who came before me. I stand respectfully in their shadow'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"><i>- An excerpt from 'Adichie, Anambra and the Core of Igbo Society' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</i></span><br />
<a href="https://nollyculture.blogspot.com/2018/02/adichie-anambra-and-core-of-igbo-society.html">https://nollyculture.blogspot.com/2018/02/adichie-anambra-and-core-of-igbo-society.html</a><br />
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><i>For further engagement with Floro Nwapa and her works: </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">'House of Nwapa' a documentary by Onyeka Nwelue</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZT5_YeTPos">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZT5_YeTPos</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><i>Photo sourced from: </i></span><a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/biography-flora-nwapa-emily-coolidge" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/biography-flora-nwapa-emily-coolidge</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Good evening
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Nkoli.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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I also feel very
gifted to connect with some of the most inspiring parts of South Africa’s pink
present: Noma Pakade<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and everyone else
who has worked really hard to make today happen. When, I was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>informed of this speaking opportunity, I
leaped in my seat, while maintaining a very professional demeanour, as is
expected of good boys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3K3tNHFj2pnIhTQL3XdifpK-U0SSITpfTJ-ur7Smk7JgX4uODhNIgwqUJW7pEpK81JetKzuMYCx8yVQjtZIMKN-1HfEmVRYT18jh3OcDNLdZOzue237StOBrkIIVaB9BDf3SmO_kgb62/s1600/sn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Image sourced from 'https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/375839531397314578/'" border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3K3tNHFj2pnIhTQL3XdifpK-U0SSITpfTJ-ur7Smk7JgX4uODhNIgwqUJW7pEpK81JetKzuMYCx8yVQjtZIMKN-1HfEmVRYT18jh3OcDNLdZOzue237StOBrkIIVaB9BDf3SmO_kgb62/s400/sn.jpg" title="Simon Nkoli" width="320" /></a></div>
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But then, I am
not a good boy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My name is
Nnanna. I am a firm believer in the potency of the word, written, spoken or
performed. And the word Simon is so heavy with baggage. In the Bible, he was
the rock, a very strong person who was one of those who championed the early
church. But in South Africa, he was the fabulous rock queen, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one of those who championed the early queer
rights movement. Now these two Simons are worlds apart. Ask the pope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But their lives
are very important lessons in team work. Particularly, intergenerational team
work and connections. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tonight, we are
looking for the South African Simon, and in fact finding him. Trying to distill
nuggets from his very godlike legacy. Most of us here are South Africans. A
good number of us where gifted enough to have shared time and space with him.
We should know that Simon was not a good boy either. In fact he was a very very
bad boy. (look up. wink)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I may<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not be certain about this. But I know him
nonetheless because the queer rights movement matters in South Africa to me. I
am learning to call here home. Besides work and study where I learned that
Simon owned both his queerness and his blackness as inseparable struggles, the
thought of such inseparability also keeps me up at night. The murkiness of
identity and relationships and movements.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the Igbo
tribe, the art of personhood is a deeply complicated craft pegged in the
availability of persons, as persons, to their family, culture and course. And two
strips of this craft is intergenerational team work and connections. Men learn
to men by mirroring available to men, women learn to women by mirroring
available women, people learn to people by mirroring other people; healers
learn to be healers by mirroring available healers and cultures grow by
mirroring other neighbouring and available cultures. With one force binding
this practice, you are deeply responsible for whoever mirrors you. You are to
be held accountable for anyone who learns from you, who feeds from you, who
walks with you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In other words- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ifele onyeala na lafeh umunnaya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The mad man’s
shame is his kinsman’s preserve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although my
manhood was learned in this manner, my queerness took me by surprise- as is
usually the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are both inseparable
parts of my identity. And they come with conflicts so stalling. Yet, I arrived
South Africa hoping that I could learn to be queer in the best way. I believed
that In Africa’s first pink country there should be opportunities for
intergenerational mirroring and growth. Because here there is a word for a
culture, we do not have a word for. A person is a person through another,
Ubuntu. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here in SA , I
found that although, there is the constitutional pinkness, we are yet to engage
with the culture of the pink ubuntu. My queer humanity is enabled by your queer
humanity. And this means that in turn you are accountable for me, responsible
for me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If Simon walked
in here today, he would be a lived queer man in his 60s nearing retirement
unable to walk half the distance he did with his customary vigour strutting in
and out of the Delmas treason trial or the first African pride. Simon is not
here, and may not be walking in tonight, but there are hundreds of people who
worked and walked with him, by him who are equally now retiring and going home.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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The question is
have they lived out the pink ubuntu intergenerationally. Or are they going to
leave their shoes empty. It is true that the struggles are different today but
resistance will always demand are a formidable doggedness that does not think
twice about crossing the line, whatever that line is. If we are really looking
for Simon tonight and finding him because we need him not because we want to
honour him, then the South African pink movement has failed itself, deeply.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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We need the pink
ubuntu intergenerationally. We do. And how do we approach this? If it’s okay, I
suggest. Be available. Be reachable. Be accessible. Take off the veil of exclusivity,
you will die. You are mortal. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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For the hot pink
person, understand that when you connect with the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grey pink person who are in the presence of
greatness. It is important that you learn, but more important that you question
with respect, because she who questions never loses her way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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For the grey
pink person, when you connect with the hot pink person, understand that you
connect with a splint capable of being sparked to flames. And this splint may
just be tomorrow’s sun. So approach with love but also respect. Be careful, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>young splints can be ‘crazy’ but we need
loving.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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In this
intergenerational pink ubuntu, there will lots of murkiness. You will cross
lines from teacher, supervisor, director to friend, father, lover, soulmate or
all of the above. There is a Kanga of Simon from Kenya with the quote that says
‘Black and white are not the colours of love’. It is important that we smear
ourselves and our magic across the spectrum of possibilities. But it is
important that in all these you do not lose sight of what is important for the
big picture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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That in every
intergenerational connection, there should be a transmission of love, wisdom,
fire and magic. So that you can be queer human through my queer humanity, and
that I can brave enough to be responsible for you, because I am you and you are
me, whatever that means.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dare say that
the best legacies of Simon Nkoli are not his contributions to the queer rights
movement but his relationships within the queer rights movement. It is the
reason that we are here today. He was such a bad boy so I can be as bad as I
want. Oh please try to stop me.<o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<i>(Delivered at the Simon Nkoli Memorial Lecture 2019)</i><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">There
is so much sadness inside of me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sometimes,
I run around in circles in my mind to exhaust myself. I am scared, very scared.
I wish I could explode. I wish I could show the scars on my heart for a proper
diagnosis. I wish these scars were a bright red blinker so that I could reach
in and yank it out. They hurt. They hurt like poison air on injury. I am
fucking going in sane with pain. The pain that Ratang is. I hate him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ratang
my curse, my fall, my spanking from God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ratang
taught me about her,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>desire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Desire the green fever. She is hectic, She
has no manners. She is constantly taking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>from my politeness, till all that is left is fire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ratang,
the love of my life. I hate him. He is everything like her. But even worse, he
made me want with him, love him, madly. Love that is sick, savage. It is
different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
met Ratang the day I came out to my family. I had come out to them after my
partner at the time broke up with me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
can’t deal with this closet anymore’ he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">After
spending a few days in bed crying out my eyes, I was going to hurt myself. I
needed to tell someone that I was hurting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">It
was over a skype call and they were several miles away. They had heard me loud
and clear because the wifi was good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I yanked
out the power cable from the wall and walked away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
walked into my shared flat and caught him rummaging through our fridge. He was
startled. Looking quite dusty, clad in an electric blue jump suit, dark, thick
framed, arms be-laced with veins, lashes sprinkled with dust, chin held in a
thick beard and head chastised clean with baldness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Sorry
Sir, I got thirsty’ he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Shut
up’ I said. Only that it was not me speaking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
came to fix the light bulbs’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Shut
up’ I said again. ‘Who else is here?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Your
flatmate just left for the campus’ he said. ‘I am sorry, I was-’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Shut
up’ I said ‘kiss me’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Only
then did he shut the fridge. Then time froze. Then my flate mate’s key turned
in the hole. Ratang, stared me down with desire. I hated him. He was filthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nothing
happened. I was having a meltdown. I was being ‘silly’. My emotions were
welling up within me. My world was falling apart and I would sit for days in
the classroom, present but lost. I would sit for days in my room. And at night,
I would bury my face in the swamp that my pillow had become because I was
getting emails and facebook messages from family members from all over world
begging, crying and even warning me not to be gay. The nightmares started. I
being called up to receive first prize and some person from the back row screaming
at the top his lungs, ‘homo’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sometimes
in these nightmares first prize would be Ratang. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In
the moments of my meltdowns there is only darkness. A saturating, consuming
darkness. People become too distant, too busy, too uncaring. I need someone to
reach into my insides and yank out the pain. I need someone to drain me of this
sadness. It is a loud stinging silence within me. I want to explode, escape. I
want to pull at both my flesh and hair. In these moments everything that once screamed
‘fight’ within me dies and I am left with the demons staring back from the
mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">A
month following our first meeting, I met Ratang again. He stood by his car
outside my building. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">He
looked five years older. He had proper clothes on. He was a man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Eita’,
he said as I passed. ‘I’ve been waiting for you.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Hello’
I said in response. ‘Is there a problem?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘No.
Not at all’ he said, ‘It is about the other day.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I’m
sorry.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Ai
wena, don’t be’ he said, waving it off. ‘You are very forward’ he said,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>while he ran his finger through the metal in
his car keys.‘I like’ he said, ‘I like very much.’ He bit his lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In
that instance my ifentinye called out all the blood and volts in me to my
pants. Ifentinye, the savage, he was pulsating rebelliously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Thank
goodness I’m wearing a big shirt’ I thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Where
are you going?’ Ratang asked ‘May I drop you off?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
hated him because he did not give me a choice. He knew. The fucker knew that I
would not refuse. So I told him, and we drove. It was winter in Johannesburg,
2006 and I had never seen a man look at me with so much ownership, so much
control, so firm and grounding a longing that said ‘I am here.’ But he was not
going to take just yet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">We
drove from the chilly Marshall Town through the dark silver N1 North and until
Gauteng became a long stretch of dark road. The insides of his car were a tinted
shade of safe, or be-spotted black, or just a shade of something I cannot now
remember. He had taken me to Wits Museum where I met up briefly with a
classmate, while he waited outside. I had asked him to. Then I went with him to
the University of Johannesburg where he delivered a box while I waited for him
because I was going nowhere. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">We
drove for most of the day. Drove around in circles then for a long stretch. All
the while, his hand was either on the gear and on my thigh. His palms sweat,
they soaked my jeans. He sweat, he bit his lips. He kept his eyes on the road
the whole time, stealing an occasional glance at either me or the rear view
mirror. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">All
the while I was here. I did not know jack about this man but he made me feel
here. He held me firmly in his presence, in this firm presence that filled his
vehicle and was threatened to rip the seams of his now soaked trousers. I did
not notice until the police pulled us over, and he took out his wallet from his
pocket to get his license, leaving his heaving <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wors</i> to reign sole and supreme on his left thigh. ‘Kai! I thought.’
The police peeped into the car to look at me and Ratang palm’s placed too close
to my pelvis to be mistaken. ‘This is my man’ his body language asserted. He
filled the place. The police man smiled naughtily. ‘Enjoy your day guys’ he
said as he waved us away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
did not notice when the sun set. I did not notice when it got colder. I did not
notice when Ratang’s car pulled over in the parking lot beneath my building.
‘We are here’ he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘It
has been a long day’ I said as I got out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Not
long enough’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Not
long enough for what?’ I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘To
make this beauty before me feel again’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘What
are you talking about?’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
heard you on the phone. I saw how you looked at me. I heard what you said to
me.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘What
do you mean?’ I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
see you Kosi’ he said, ‘I see you.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I’m
tired’ I said, lying through my teeth ‘I’m going in. Thank you for today.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
yawned and stretched as authentically as I could. Grabbed, suddenly grabbed by
both of Ratang’s hands and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pulled into a
hard embrace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
am here’ he whispered. ‘I’m here’ he said, pressing his pelvis against mine.
Niagara! I felt myself thaw. I heard my heart beat. I felt myself feel. Like
the warmth of Ratang drew lines and angles through my body that I did not understand.
But I wanted. I wanted and I found. I wanted so hard to feel. I wanted so hard
to thaw, to be taken, to be owned, to be believed. Niagara! The shaking of my
core, his tongue ploughing alcoves through my lips as he fumbled with the door
handle of the backseat of his car. It was cold. We could hear another car
drawing closer. Just as we fell through, the glare from the passing car flashed
a beam over Ratang’s head. It shone like the silhouette of a black pearl. Niagara!
I want. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
want you’ Ratang said. I cried like Niagara had never fallen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
want you in me’ I told him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘I want to
feel’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Like
the stars where aligning, there was a power cut. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">That
night he churned me. He churned me like cheese in the back of his car. He bound
my hands in his belt, muffed my lips with tape of his tongue and churned me. My
shoulders burned and the belt pressed deep in my wrists till the blood was gone
from my palm and it felt cold and ticklish. I felt. I felt him. He filled and
ploughed me, his rough denim trousers jamming in on the back of my thighs, and
his sweat dropping like frost to my back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
see you’ he chanted between deep throated gasps. ‘I want’ I thought. ‘I want’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">When
I called him on the phone the next day, he did not pick. I tried again. I tried
for weeks. Something bad must have happened to him. I got worried. Once I saw
his car parked outside my building on my way for a late lecture. I went to it
and looked around for the sign of a dent. When I touched it, that night came
back. I could hear his voice again. My thighs throbbed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ifentinye </i>kicked. I walked around running my finger tips on its
sides, I felt my tongue dry out. My back broke into a sweat, my heart went
gbim! gbim! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
want’ I thought. ‘I want’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
was going to dash back into the building. I was going to ask the security
person to tell me if Ratang was here. I was going to peel through the hall ways
of the building looking for him. But the lecture was only an hour long. I’d be
back and I’d be in his arms. I went away. ‘He must be working in one of the
flats’ I thought. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">When
I returned that night, Ratang’s car was gone. The dark clouds began to gather
again but this time, they came with desire. A dark, desperate, savage, desire.
It rained. This was foolish. I barely knew him. ‘What nonsense!’. ‘But I want’
I thought, ‘I want’. That night I curled myself around my Bible and tried to
choke myself with the thought of sleeping. But all I could think of was that he
was here. ‘He was here in this building today and it did not occur to him to
drop me a message, or even give me his number. The gbaf!’ I thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">In
the morning, a few days later I saw his car again. I walked past, or at least I
willed myself to. I walked a few blocks away from it. ‘Keep walking Kosi, keep
walking.’ But no, I walked back. I wanted to touch it. I wanted to touch him. I
did. Every second my fingertips tapped gently across the car’s body, I felt his
hand between my thighs. I felt him pulsating inside of me. ‘Gbim! gbim!’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Every
time. The seats. The very seats. I shut my eyes and it was dark again, my knees
scraping on the carpet floor and my head jamming against the cushion. My
shoulders, they <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>burned. I can hear me
moaning in my head. I can hear him gasping. ‘I see you’ he whispers between
gasps. ‘I want’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
touch myself. This is savage. ‘I want.’ It’s crazy. I feel him, one firm hand
clamped firmly on one side of my pelvis, the other clamped around my belt bound
wrists. The trudging through. I feel him. Skin. I feel him, sweat and slime and
grace. His firmness that demands ‘You will give it to me boy. You will give it
to me.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Are
you alright?’ Ratang said. The darkness fell off like a snatched veil. I was in
public, my palm wielding a jutting, drooling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ifentinye</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Hi!’
I said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Get
into the car’ he ordered. I obeyed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">He
drove into the underground parking lot. It was dark, very dark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
missed you’ I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I’m
here.’ He said. His eyes flashed through the dark with desire. He bit his lip. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
want’ I thought. ‘I want’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">He
leaned over to the pidgeon whole as though to search it and I reached out to
touch him. He jutted up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Stop!’
he ordered. I obeyed. ‘Place your hands on the dash board’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Is
there a pro-’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Kosi’,
He whispered, ‘Don’t ask.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">He
reached again for the pidgeon hole and retrieved two long neckties dark shades
of something. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">He
bound my two wrists with one and bound my knee with the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘No
matter what happens, keep your hands on the dash board.’ He whispered. ‘Be
quiet, okay?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Okay’
I whispered. ‘I love you.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">His
smooth head brushed beneath my arms. I felt a damp warmness reach in for me,
then he slithered around me. Shivering around the shaft, teasing, tickling,
tapping. Teasing, tickling, tapping. Teasing, tickling, tapping. Then in one
swift movement, he dove it my roots taking all of me in his damp pulsating
warmth. ‘I want’ I gasped ‘I want’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Quiet’
he whispered between mouthfuls ‘I’m here.’ Back and forth the root, back and
forth. The blood left my arms. My knees jerked, kicked. ‘I want’ I gasped. His
pace, fierce fanlike, swift. Back and forth, his throbbing flesh, warm,
pulsating, alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘You
should come home with me sometime’ he said to me as he wiped his lips while
looking in the rearview mirrors. ‘This parking lot business is beginning to
bore me.’ He had retrieved all of me, wiped me clean, wiped me dry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Okay’
I whispered, coy to my bones as we drove into the daylight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Both
his eyes were red, and a vein ran passed his forehead beneath dripping sweat
beads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘I
don’t know about love’ he said as he returned the ties which I could now see
were polka dotted <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘But
this is hot!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘What
else could it be?’ I thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
saw him more often but it was the same game. He only said ‘eita’ to me when he
thought no one was watching. He never called me on the phone. I never knew when
I was going to bump into him. I did not know where he lived. He did not tell me.
I did not ask. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">But
the darkness was gone, and the pressure from home became bearable. I focused
better in class and I slept well. I slept better when I willed him into me
while I oscillated my pelvis beneath my touch. I slept faster after I was
drained of my savage starvation. I prayed to bump into him. But more fiercely I
prayed to bump into him when no one else was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Still
in his silence he would shoot me a look of affirming desire. ‘I see you boy’
they would say. Sometimes he would wink at me in the hallway brushing the back
of my palm with his little finger, sending the blood rushing to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ifentinye </i>as he walked past in his
electric blue overalls. ‘I want’ I thought. ‘I want.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
had known him for a year before I left for Nigeria for the holidays. He had
promised to meet me on the eve of my departure. But sent word that he could not
make it. I got on the plane feeling very distressed. I could have sworn that I
was having a subtle premonition that the plane would crash. It did not. Ratang
was heavy on my chest. The darkness was going to get me. I was terrified. But
this was not desire I felt. This was a different darkness, like death sat next
to me the whole time on the plane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
was in Nigeria for a month, completely disconnected from the world I left in
South Africa. I was getting into my final year of study, I needed to go in
fully healed, fully formed. I decided that Ratang was bad news. Him and all
South African gay men were my past. They were all bad news. When you are in the
closet, they want you out. When you come out, they want to push you back in. I
grew increasingly resentful of my sexual subservience to this strange man with
his strange car who had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>no history, no
context, no last name. I hated him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
went in to see a psychologist from my home church, she was quite elderly and
was not so pleased when I told her about my homosexuality. She suggested that I
listened to my parents, pray more and try to forget ‘things’ that added no
value to my life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘What
you really want in life, you will get’ she said. ‘Icho ya Chukwu ga enye gi.
God almighty will give you.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I
began to resent her when she told my mum everything I told her in confidence. I
stopped when I got on the plane back to South Africa. She stopped mattering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">On
my return to my Marshall town apartment, there was a coldness to security
person’s mood. He gave me a stack of unsealed envelopes. He said that they were
from the landlord. I did not know the landlord. I had no direct contact with
him because the Admission’s office at school paid for our accommodation
directly from the scholarship funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Are
you sure?’ I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Yes’
his mother also wants to see you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘His
mother?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘But
she will come to you.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dear Kosi, </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">the content of the
first envelope read, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sometimes, we search to the end of the earth
for that one person trusting enough to take a chance on us and our crazy. You
make me feel Kosi, you make me feel.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">R. Lerumo<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">That
evening a woman visited me. She introduced herself as Ratang’s mother. She was
an effeminate version of Ratang with slightly more hair on her head and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thin film of grey placed over her . She came
with more letters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These envelopes too
were unsealed. I invited her in unsure of what would follow. She asked to sit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘How
was your visit to Nigeria?’ she asked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘It
went well’ I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘How
are your parents?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘They
are doing okay, thanks’ I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘Okay.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Then
was silence. She looked around as though looking for something on the wall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘These
are from Ratang’ she said breaking the silence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘How
is he?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">‘He
is fine now’ she said. ‘He will live’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dear Kosi</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">, one of the letters
from the new batch read <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">There is so much I want to tell you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want
to tell you that I struggle so badly with holding on to life. I want to tell
you that my heart is a war torn zone. I want to tell you about my late child, my
failed marriage, and how I can no longer write my papers or books because my
mind is too enraged, too grieved to think logically. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">My heart is too broken to believe.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">But these days, the hall ways are empty until
I run into you. The days are dark and grey until you walk through the door. I
want to tell you that my apartment on the tenth floor with its five rooms is
cold and blue marble, filled with the haunting fragrance of ex-wives perfume,
handwash liquid and loneliness. I want to tell you that my life was so boring that
I took up the job of changing light bulbs in my building because I needed to
meet new people, walk in on new stories, distract myself from my pain. This was
the only way I was not going to lose my mind. This was the only way that I was
going to meet you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
lonely Kosi. I am so lonely. I have not been able to function for a long time,
but I am determined to hold on one more day to see you return. I want to invite
you up here. I want to tell you that I intend to sell off this property, make
my last donation to the university and retire home to the Northern Cape. I want
you to come with me. I want you to come because you have taken a chance on my
crazy. I met you for the first time during your skype interview for your
scholarship. I said nothing about your application, but your charm spoke
volumes to your merit. On so many levels you were the one. You came at a time
when the world was falling apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
were the answer to prayers I long said, deeply regretted and then resaid.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">You were about to take a chance on the world
leaving Nigeria and coming here. I wished I could tell you to stay back home
and make it work. But how could I compete? Even now I don’t how to compete the
with the man that I see you becoming, with the great journey that you are on.
But then the journey is half the value of the prize, the half that we become.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">I wish I could tell you that you remind me so
much of myself and that I was stricken with every time I drove past as you and
your friends walked home. Or that the day I followed you into the building
calling at our name as loud as I could I so badly wanted to spill out my guts
to you but you had your ear phones plugged in. I only got to door after you
shut it. This was in your second year here I believe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s difficult for me because I do not know
how these things work. I don’t know how to tell you that I feel what I feel. I
don’t know how to find you, or what to do when you are around. I don’t know to
respond to your touch. It unlocks me, you unlock every part of me. And I don’t
know how to handle it. So I avoid you when I can and take you when I can no
longer hold my peace.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">There is so much I want to tell you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">There is so much I want to be to you. The
best of them is that it feels great to finally be found.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr R Lerumo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-87777837245559132002018-11-25T14:48:00.003-08:002018-11-25T15:25:52.288-08:00Someday we will be too old for magic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Someday, we will outgrow our dreams</div>
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Like the becoming of a thing</div>
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Like the forgetting of the journey</div>
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Someday, the trophy will be seen</div>
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As a thing most empty</div>
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A thing to be boxed away, forgotten</div>
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Someday all we have fought for will be ours</div>
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Winning will not be half the victory that getting to battle was</div>
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And we will want is to go back to the very first step</div>
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To the very first kiss</div>
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Someday we will outgrow this magic</div>
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Un-have this scar</div>
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We will be too detached from this madness</div>
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Simply too far</div>
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Someday, we will be jaded by the ordinariness that comes with insulation<br />
The wrongness that comes with being right<br />
The damnation that comes with silence<br />
We will forget that tension is our truth<br />
And that dreams should matter</div>
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That hunger is a thrill</div>
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That loss can be such a starter<br />
And that being 'wrong' can be the best thing you can do for your time<br />
And perhaps the most important thing you will do for all of time</div>
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Someday</div>
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Someday, we will be too old for magic</div>
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And I will be too old to stay up late with you</div>
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You will no longer see the lights on through the crack in my door</div>
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Someday, there will be bills to pay and errands to run</div>
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And changing the world will only be for the characters in the books we will then save up to buy</div>
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Someday we will outgrow this magic</div>
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And a touch will only be a touch</div>
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Someday, they will look at us oblivious of what we have done</div>
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Un-knowing of who we are</div>
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Because the 'historians' told the stories differently</div>
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Or because other storytellers simply choose not to engage</div>
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Because they will be socialised differently</div>
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To think of magic as the illusion of glitter as opposed to the being of sand and all-sand</div>
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Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-39776105451282467972018-07-06T15:30:00.003-07:002018-07-06T15:31:31.860-07:00Queer Spaces will change things at UP<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
We have not done enough for queer persons at South African universities.</div>
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Studies and surveys carried out at universities in the United States and Australia show that queer persons suffer higher rates of sexual violence and harassment than non-queer persons. These surveys were carried out in jurisdictions with progressive laws and legal systems, much like those of South Africa. They are evidence that tough laws and policies provide good structures, and that the living and social realities of queer persons in our universities need to catch up. The harassment of queer persons is an issue too pressing to be ignored if the sanctity of learning spaces is to be guaranteed. Queer persons are as much a concern as other members of the staff and student community in planning both the present and the future training of foot soldiers through awareness raising and education.</div>
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A few months ago, my debut novel Fimí sílẹ̀ forever was released. Among other things, it addresses the dire state of the human rights of queer persons in Nigeria. On the understanding that the human rights of queer persons are a global concern, a few conversations have been held on campus against the backdrop of the book. In these conversations, there are two recurring questions: 'How African is queerness?' and 'Can a queer person be a person of faith as well?' These questions are proof that the humanity of queer persons is still being questioned. This doubt fuels the vulnerability of queer persons. This vulnerability results in queer persons making up a substantial portion of those who are most susceptible to unreported and unaddressed violations and harassment on campus. This fact challenges the presumption that Universities offer a learning and working space that is safe and inclusive for all.</div>
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There are many queer persons among staff and students, and the widespread stigmatisation of queerness heightens our vulnerability. Some of us come from homes where we must hide our queer identities or face the risk of being thrown out or disowned, or both. Some assailants know and exploit this. Sometimes, our assailants may be someone in a position of authority over us. At other times, our assailants may be persons of equal rank or subordinates. Lesbians and gender non-conforming students are particularly at risk. On a few occasions, they have admitted publicly to carrying weapons for their protection. The vulnerability of queer persons is heightened by the fact that we use denial, withdrawal and silence as coping mechanisms. Perhaps we believe that the continuity and completion of our involvement at the institution depends on this silence. Often, we have little or no knowledge of the structures available to address harassment. Sometimes, even when we know where to go, we lack sufficient understanding and/or faith in the structures to make the best use of them.</div>
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A few departments, including the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria (UP), as well as staff and students, have come together to create the UP Queer Space Collective (QSC). This is an informal group with the vision to make UP safer and more inclusive of queer identities, using creative writing and expression.</div>
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The QSC has requested a designated physical space for queer literature at the Merensky 2 Library. The Department of Library Services is also now working on a queer lib-guide (an online repository on the library website of links to online and physical locations of queer literature). A physical reading space for queer literature is already up and running at the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender. The main purpose of this is to sustain a space at UP where being queer is okay and protected.</div>
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Awareness-raising is important because, as in the wider community, there are many people at UP taking deliberate advantage of the vulnerability of queer persons. These are people who are ignorant of queer persons and queer identity, and as such inadvertently abuse them, or people who, although queer themselves, 'cash in' on other queer persons' vulnerability for several reasons. Awareness-raising at the University is particularly important because UP plays a major role in social transformations. Every year, UP receives and graduates South African and international students in various disciplines. This means that UP has a great opportunity to contribute to training foot soldiers for change on the continent and in the world. As such, it is important that we teach ourselves, and our friends and colleagues, to think of queerness and harassment of queer persons differently. We can do this by reforming minds and spaces, and punishing perpetrators to deter others.</div>
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The QSC has the potential to be a one-stop shop for all queer-friendly UP persons and institutions. If effectively supported and sustained, the QSC can continue to contribute to the sanctity of Queer UP, especially through the de-stigmatisation and protection of queer persons.</div>
<br />(originally published on: https://www.up.ac.za/en/alumni/news/post_2548614-queer-spaces-will-change-things-at-up)Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-34181699822471848492018-07-06T15:22:00.002-07:002018-07-06T15:28:48.801-07:00Building alliances between IDAHOT and MaputoProtocol@15 for womxn<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>The international Day Against Homophobia Transphobia and Biphobia</i></div>
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<i>Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa</i></div>
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<i>No set definition. This term, as used in this piece, refers to a broad still unraveling category of persons of female gender who voluntary identify, live, express their gender crossing stereotypical roles and standards, embracing her several cross-cutting circumstances and layers of identity, recognizing the humanity and diversity in her community, operating, demanding, believing in and working towards the substantive equality(equity) of all sexes and genders and against the repressive confines of the poisonous glorification of masculinity at the expense of the human rights of persons of female gender in all spaces. A feminist.</i></div>
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People around the world celebrate IDAHOT annually on May 17 to mark the ‘de-pathologisation’ of same-sex attraction in 1990. 28 years later, in 2018 the African continent celebrates the 15thanniversary of the emergence of the Maputo Protocol, Africa’s regional articulation of the human rights of persons of female gender taking particular cognisance of the African context. Theme for IDAHOT this year is ‘Alliances for Solidarity’, focusing on the important collaborations that have been and need to be forged in laws, policies, theories, practices, movements and relationships in order to foster cut-throat progress in the advancement of human rights, particularly the protection, promotion and fulfilment of the human rights of LGBTI persons. Linking the Maputo Protocol, IDAHOT and their camps as allies I believe is a match made in heaven for the aid of vulnerable groups such as womxn.</div>
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In 2015 Caitlyn Jenner rocked most of the world by stepping into public glare to broadcast her transitioning from the widely celebrated athletic and ultra-masculine Bruce Jenner to the now sultry, unsettling, ‘who-do-you-think-you-are’; gracefully disruptive sensation Caitlyn Jenner. ‘This is taking gay to a whole new level!’ the world may have thought- I may have thought so too at the time. Some distance away from Caitlyn’s situation, in spaces like East and West Africa – and even some parts of the South- the noose was tightening legally around persons of same-sex loving sexual orientations and socially around anything that connected to or smacked of derogation from the glorification of heterosexuality and stereotypically set expressions of gender.</div>
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At home in Nigeria, it was such a heated time, it is still very heated at the moment. In some parts of Nigeria, actual or perceived homosexual sexual orientation could land persons and groups serious beatings, lynching, unlawful arrests, public humiliation in the media and even death. The flame of this homophobic inhumanity is fanned by the media, pop-culture, religious and political leaders. In South Africa, where I now reside, where the laws are progressive and the expectations are high, there are still recurring incidents of homophobic human rights violations.</div>
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Unfortunately, because the general and uninformed impulse is to flatten everything that is not heterosexuality to homosexuality, this translates to lived realities getting several times as hard and repressed for womxn, for the multiple reasons that: they are persons of female gender; they cross de-glorifying constructs of socially and culturally set standards of femininity and poisonously glorified masculinity in all spaces; there is often a strict expectation that womxn should not be doing the latter; womxn breaching this expectation is perceived as highly offensive and threatening by persons and systems of authority. As if regular gender inequality was not bad enough, womxn deal with recurring and increasing degrees of gender-based violence, domestic violence, rape, humiliation at work, school, places, of worship, policing of their femininity, their views, careers and bodies. In a greater part of the continent, womxn on a daily basis deal with shocking levels of human rights violations.</div>
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In several African societies, there are a thousand and more shades of womxn or persons perceived to be womxn. These range from persons of female gender who choose to wear trousers and not skirts to persons who wear a darker shade of lipstick than others; dying their hair a colour/shade or two varying from the default ; pierce more than one hole on an each ear for jewelry or pierce multiple holes around their body; having tattoos; stubbornly insisting on going to school; pursuing a career as opposed to involuntary staggering into marriage; not being interested in marriage at all; having a deeper note of baritone than is permissible; being sexually and romantically inclined or attracted to or involved with other persons of female gender; having social, genetic, genital or physical features that are outside poisonously glorifying masculine expectations of what a person of female gender should be. But this is not the only problem.</div>
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In 2017, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award winning Nigerian author whose feminism is often woke, made the controversial statement ‘Transwomen are transwomen’. This earned her so much hostility. She subsequently explained that she meant to say that transwomen are separate category with unique experiences from naturally cisgender women. More interestingly this controversy highlighted the argument that more often than not feminism is largely pegged on the tokenisation of female persons whose gender identities and expressions are reasonably within the scope of tolerance of the masculine glorifying structures, enough to matter as the majority of persons of female gender , and often as the only persons of female gender that count.</div>
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Generally, in most African societies and at the regional level, womxn do not fall within this scope of tolerance as such they have been unjustly excluded from the broad and open conversations on gender and human rights. Contrary to Chimamanda’s inclinations of separating the different struggles in order to keep them all in focus, the plight of womxn have been separated and ignored. Separation has not worked. Perhaps this is because gender and human rights on the African continent still generally caters to poisonously glorifying masculine standards.</div>
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Often when feminist suggest that we should think of gender differently, it is assumed that they mean to think within this set scope of tolerance. The wide resistance to the observer status of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) should also have been perceived as a bold and unjust resistance to the substance of the Maputo Protocol and the human rights of persons of female gender on the African continent. A resistance that all persons of female gender, and everyone else should recognise as a disappointment and threat to human rights and democracy.</div>
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The Centre for Human Rights recognises this resistance and is presently working on a visual campaign with the theme of ‘Transwomen are women’ to mark the 15th anniversary of the Maputo Protocol. This campaign argues for respect for diversity and the recognition of the plight of womxn as part of the major issues that concern persons of female gender on the African continent. This is because a person of female gender is never just one thing. This campaign encourages that the articulation, policy making, law making, activism and positive practices around the human rights of persons of female gender be enriched to include and cater for the human rights and specific identities and realaties of womxn as well. The stars align in Africa, allying IDAHOT and MaputoProtocol@15, we need to think and work inclusively, progressively and productively for all persons of the female gender; nobody should be ignored. Nobody should be left behind.</div>
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(Originally punblished on: https://africlaw.com/2018/05/18/building-alliances-between-idahot-and-maputoprotocol15-for-womxn/ )</div>
Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-23574332383229115162018-02-09T14:12:00.001-08:002018-02-09T14:13:16.316-08:00'Unbeautiful', Njo!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes it invades me like fever</div>
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'Unbeautiful', 'Njo!' I feel it.</div>
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It comes at night to assault me</div>
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His arms are cold and infuses me with sadness</div>
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I can't sleep</div>
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No one at home can sleep</div>
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My bed creaks </div>
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I pace about restlessly in my mind</div>
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I hear words and faces are formed in the virtual clay of the dark</div>
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I see pictures even</div>
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'Unworthy', how can I forget?</div>
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Then the morning comes</div>
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And I emerge like I'm happy, who doesn't</div>
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I forget that I'm pretend, I believe, faith</div>
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There isn't a reason not to be</div>
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But I'm ashamed</div>
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I'm deeply ashamed</div>
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I can't tell anyone</div>
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They hear the creaking beds not my screaming</div>
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'Unneeded' 'such a waste'</div>
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The whispering never stops in my head and in the corridors</div>
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I've failed at 'boyhood'</div>
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I've failed at 'manhood'</div>
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There is nowhere to run to</div>
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The floor has denied me a funeral</div>
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The sun blares overhead</div>
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The heat is lethal</div>
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It hurts me, us</div>
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And when it rains, it floods</div>
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It floods cold puddles of tears</div>
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It's dark only to be lit by the scary lightening that winks at my humiliation</div>
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It's bed time again</div>
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'Unbeautiful', 'Alu!' 'such a waste' </div>
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The voices return</div>
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I can't sleep</div>
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No one at home can sleep</div>
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So we lay alive in our beds, in the puddle of tears that fell as rain </div>
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Blue is the colour of denim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the colour of ‘cakes’ and condoms. It
is the colour of Nkosi’s charm when he twists and turns beside me. I am leaving
him in the morning for Nigeria. Our Hatfield home is all I have known for the
past seven months. I love it. I love him. But home is where my butt was first
whipped, Port Harcourt Nigeria. It is where green is still dense and needs no
artificial watering. Home is where pap is not a thick corn paste eaten with
chicken but the thin akamu lapped up with sugar, milk and moi-moi. </div>
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<br /></div>
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But blue is the colour of our
bedsheets too. It is the colour of the plastic horn Nkosi wears around his
neck. Blue is the colour of Nkosi’s love. The colour of the shirt he wore the
day we locked glances for the first time at a cocktail bar eight months ago. I
shivered because it had been cold. But I shuddered because I had never thought
myself queer enough to catch anyone’s attention. But he had seen me. Nkosi had
seen me and had come to me. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Blue, the colour of my turbulent
blood and the frozen time when he held me in the space between the Joe Public
night club and a raging heart, kissing and tickling my ear lobes so tenderly as
his caucasian un-Zulu looking fingers held my torso in place.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Blue is often the colour on the
insides of my closed lids as I, stark naked, ride his lips, while he lay
slabbed between and beneath me fully clothed, drenched in our sweat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the while, his wide pelvis oscillating
gently beneath the gentle press of both his palms. All the while still
clothed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So blue. So Nkosi.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Blue, the colour of the condom he
handed me just before I fucked my thirtieth birthday present while he laid back
on the grey velvet sofa puffing the cigar that he lit in the flicker of the
scented candle beside him. All the while laid back stringing me tightly with
his eyes, his saturating presence.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Blue, the colour of the pills he
swallows at 8:00pm every night just after dinner. I serve him on a glass saucer.
His eyes, half shut like Garfield's after gulping them down. He regrets. But
things are better. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I am leaving him in the morning
for Nigeria. It is my nephew’s christening in a few days. I have been chosen to
be his godfather. This will be my first visit to Nigeria since I told my family
during our monthly skype call that I like boys that much. Blue was the colour
of their silence. And the colour of the screen when they all feigned poor
internet signals and signed off one after the other. They had not fought me but
they had avoided talking about it. Blue is the colour of the emptiness I felt,
I still feel. </div>
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I am boy. ‘Blue is for boys.’
This had always been drummed into me from birth whenever I had to choose
anything from a toothbrush to a shirt, anything. So everything had to be blue,
a different shade of blue, but blue. Blue is the colour of everything that I
have learned to cling to. Blue is my fierce pull to Nkosi, a man almost like
me. Blue is my fever. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Blue makes me cringe at the
Nigerian label <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tibii</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and makes me embrace the South African label
queer. Being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tibii </i>makes me a target
but being queer validates my agitation, lets me stand behind ideologies and
philosophies, walls that insulate me from stones and raw homophobia. Blue makes
it okay to be insulated. I am insulated. Nkosi is not. He was born with a vulva
that he will let no one touch. His vulva had annoyed me in the first month. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
‘This is simply impossible!’, I
thought while my car sped away the night he told me.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
It had frightened me for the
better part of our second month together. I could not imagine myself sharing a
home or a life with it. But Nkosi…Nkosi drove me <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ga-ga</i>. He drove me <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kpof-corns.</i>
I stayed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned to stay and grow
into every part of him. Not that I mind, but somehow here in South Africa it is
a big deal that his blood screams of Zulu, Afrikaans and English genetic scripts
yet his skin and hair are European. He wants his skin several shades darker. He
is not insulated, he may never be.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He turns and turns beside me. His face marked
by last night’s tears. His lips mumbling in his sleep the last of his plight to
me. He does not want me to leave. He wants to come with. He said that he has a
bad feeling about my return home. He thinks that it is a trap.<br />
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'Tope, I have a bad feelings', he says.<br />
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He believes that
he will never see me again. He cried himself to sleep when I failed at being
‘reasonable’.</div>
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I am scared of returning home.
But home is where my butt was first whipped. So I am all packed and ready to
hop on that plane to return to the place where I can be uncle, son, brother. These
make Nigeria worth returning to. I am not scared enough to forget. I am
resolved to never be that scared. At least not yet. </div>
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Sirens blare and someone in a
blue shirt screams ‘homo!!!!’ and my lids are flung apart. ‘Jesus!’</div>
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‘I’m sorry’ she texted in a Whatsapp
message just before I boarded. ‘Ejike says that his son will have no
cock-sucker for a godfather. I’m sorry.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, I am allowed to come home. They have
said nothing else. They not told me that they joined some our church members to
hold private prayer sessions for me. They have not told me that they have
ransacked my room in search of proof. Proof! They had not told me that they
have been questioning my friends and physically attacking them whenever they
visited our home. They been quiet and courteous to me. Sending me their love
and blessings.<br />
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Still I am boarding the plane,
oblivious of the 42 men arrested only a few months ago for homosexual charges. The
plane is packed with Nigerians, mostly Igbo men like me. I can tell, they have
their blue walls up claiming their space, asserting themselves in shades of
blue, from cocky loud to silent deadly. Blue!</div>
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I am going home. Nkosi is in my
thoughts. I am scared. As the plane leaves the ground I regret. I want to
varnish. I want Nkosi. </div>
Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-83084547274904223872017-12-17T02:50:00.002-08:002017-12-17T06:35:04.089-08:00Because Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam stands: An open letter to the Nigerian leadership and people requesting the unconditional call of Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear Naija,</div>
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On 12 December 2017, a batch of Nigerian law students were admitted at the International Conference Centre(ICC), Abuja to the Nigerian Bar as barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I recall thinking, in 2015 when I was called, that the my call was the biggest party in Abuja and possibly Nigeria. This is because at every call the world would be alive to watch the Nigerian law students' six or more years of study validated by the creme de la creme of the Nigerian legal profession.</div>
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I assure you, it is a big deal not just for the law student, but also peers, family, community and the rest of Nigeria.</div>
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At the 2017 call, Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam, a young female muslim law student, was denied entrance into the ICC because she insisted on wearing the muslim hijab beneath her wig. On the grounds of her visibly identifying as a muslim, she was denied her well deserved admittance into the Nigerian Bar. This denial is completely unacceptable. Section 38 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999(as amended) which provides for the freedom of thought, conscience and religion frowns at it. So does Article 3, 5 and 12 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa which provide for the rights to dignity and state duty to eliminate all forms of harmful practices which negtively affect the human rights of women; protect women who are at risk of being subjected to harmful practices or all other forms of intolerance; protect women from all forms of abuse in school(academic pursuit); Article 6, 23(g), 25 of the African Youth Charter which provide that states shall ensure that every young person shall have the freedom of thought, conscience and religion; eliminate all traditional practices that undermine the physical integrity and dignity of women; provide educational sytems that do not impede girls from attending, eliminate harmful social and cultural practices that harm and are discriminatory to youth on the basis of gender, age, or other status; Article 4,5 and 8 of Nigeria's African Charter on the Human and Peoples' Rights Ratification and Enforcement Act (African Charter) which provide for the right to inegrity, dignity and the free practice of religion frown at this.</div>
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As always the social media and the real society has diverging stance on the issue of whether or not the system is legit in its withholding Amasa's acceptance into the Nigerian Bar on the basis of her insistence on wearing her hijab while being called. However, it is important to consider precedents on the interpretation of freedom of religion. The African Charter, though an international treaty, has been domesticated in Nigeria as a federal law and is as binding as every other federal law in Nigeria. Articles 61 of the African Charter permits that to interprete its provision, inspiration may be drawn from legal principles, precedents, doctrines, customs generally accepted as law and recognised by African states. In this light, the decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (African Commission) on the scope of the freedom of religion are a relelvant reference. <i>Prince v South Africa </i>(2000) AHRLR 57 (ACHPR 1997).</div>
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In <i>Prince v South Africa </i>the African Commission addressed among other things the scope of freedom of freedom of religion and its limitation. In this case, Prince argued that his freedom of religion was violated because the South African government denied him admittance into his legal profession on the basis of his use of cannabis (although for sacremental purpose as a Rastafari). The use of cannabis is generally illegalised by the South African Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act. He was made to choose between adhering to his Rastafarian beliefs and his professional career as a lawyer.</div>
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The African Commission in addressing the limitations of freedoms enshrined in Art 27(2) of the African Charter, held that human rights and freedoms may be restricted by the state. However, such limitation must be strictly proportionate with, and absolutely necessary for the advantages, which are obtained. These advantanges include protecting the rights of others, collective security, morality and common interest. In Prince's case, restricting his freedom of religion based on his use of cannabis was legitimated based on the fact that cannabis is an 'undesirable dependence producing substance'.</div>
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A similar restriction, as relied on the African Commission in Prince's case, was held by United Nations Human Rights Committee in <i>K Singh Bhinder v Canada </i>(communication 208/1986). In this case Bhinder, a maintenance electrician at a government owned Canadian National Railway Company, insisted on wearinga turban as prescribed by the Sikh religion as opposed to a safety head gear at work. Owing to this, his employment was terminated. Bhinder alleged discrimination. The Committee, in interpreting the Article 26 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(ICCPR)(on the rights to equality and non-discrimination) held that the law's requirement of wearing a safety head gear in employment such as Bhinder's was 'reasonable and directed towards objective purposes that are compatible with the ICCPR, human rights, life, dignity, equality, safety...</div>
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The four principles are afloat here are those of proportionality, necessity, reasonability and legality. Is there a particular ill that wearing the hijab resorts to? Does it violate anyone else's human rights? What purpose does the insistence of the management on Amasa's refusal to take off the hijab serve? Was it necessary for the protection of public morality or safety? Did Amasa's wearing the hijab violate any rule or law? Even if it violated a rule or law, how compatible is that rule or law with the pursuit of the welfare of the Nigerian people, the legal profession or human dignity generally? How reasonable was Amasa's being denied admittance into the legal profession on the basis of her insistence on being called wearing her hijab? If these questions and issues are thoroughly considered, we see that there was absolutely no legit basis for Amasa's being denied admittance into the Nigerian Bar.</div>
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The hijab is no cannabis; wearing it to the call to bar ceremony does not infringe on the collective security, morality or right of others like was the case in <i>Prince v South Africa. </i>It has absolutely no safety implication and violates no just legal requirement which exists in cognisance of the humanity, dignity and human rights as was the case in <i>K Singh Bhinder v Canada. </i>Refusing Amasa admittance to the Nigerian Bar on the grounds of her wearing her hijab is of no necessity besides fostering a practice that serves no essential purpose outside falsely role casting the Nigerian legal profession and the rest of Nigeria as a homogenous common law jurisdiction.<i> </i>What has been done to Amasa is totally unacceptable and is against the principles of proportionality, necessity, reasonability and legality.</div>
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Granted, Amasa's insistence on wearing the hijab is 'transgressive'. But even in her seeming transgression she is well within the scope of her freedoms of expression and religion. Have not our legal history shown us that such 'transgressions' are more salient than cowering silence and compliance, and should be more welcome than not? This is especially in a Nigeria where patriachy and inequality mostly go unquestioned, unjust conventions and practices mostly progress undisturbed. Undisturbed, untransgressed! Unjust practices which span from the ancestral era of slavery, colonialism and the killing of twins to the more contemporary ones such as the preclusion of female offsprings from inheriting family property, ruled against in <i>Mojekwu v Mojekwu </i>(1997); the requirement that married Nigerian women must provide the authorisation letters from their husbands while applying for a new international passport, ruled against in <i>Dr Priye Iyalla-Amadi v Comptroller General, Nigerian Immigration Service and Anor </i>(2009); the mob attacks inflicted on suspected homosexuals in Nigeria which still thrive unattended; unquestioned excesses by members of the police force. I could go on.<br />
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But, but, but, Amasa has not only decided to speak and act up, she has, through her firm stand, cast a light on Nigeria's greatest sin, intolerance. Nigeria is more than just a former british colony, it is a diverse territory overflowing with all sorts which the Nigerian state is bound by laws both national and international to protect, preserve and inclusively balance. We are anything, everything, but homogenous. The fact that 'this is how it has been' is no longer good enough to secure our development as a people. We can test this against history, the past, against our hopes and dreams for our country, our youth, our future. There is a space for Amasa and her message at the Nigerian Bar. There is a space for diversity and inclusion in Nigeria.</div>
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The call is such a symbolic ceremony for every Nigerian lawyer because it is an ushering into a life time career of speaking up and standing out. Most of us may never get to do this even after being called. Amasa, however, decided to begin her career with her call ceremony. What has been done to her is a great injustice. It will even be a greater injustice to stall her career for another year. There is no greater humiliation than this. This humiliation shall poison our youth with cowardice and fill our streets with impunity.</div>
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As a queer Nigerian man who understands the evil of intolerance and the repression of unquestioned conventions, I join my voice with Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam, and several others, to demand the following from the leadership of the Nigerian Law School, Council of Legal Education and Nigeria:</div>
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1. The revisiting of the dresscode for the Nigerian Law School and Call to Bar ceremonies to include the wearing of hijabs;</div>
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2. A public apology to Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam for denying her admittance, alongside her peers, into the Nigerian Bar on 12 December 2017;</div>
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3. That Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam be called to the Nigerian bar with all the due rights and privileges conferred on her.</div>
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4. That the fulfiment of the above request (3) be deemed, for all intentions and purposes, to have been done on 12 December 2017 as was the right date of her call.</div>
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I celebrate you Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam. I stand with you. Your ruggedity has begun a stampede. You are on to great things.</div>
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Inspired,</div>
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Nnanna </div>
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(I write this is in my capacities as a Nigerian lawyer and storyteller, none other)</div>
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(Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam's image source from http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/nigerian-law-graduate-denied-call-bar-hijab-171216084329791.html)</div>
Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-62433932428841293512017-05-29T23:38:00.002-07:002017-06-02T01:40:39.117-07:00Three and still in my heartDear Oge,<br />
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On 1 April 2017, I saw a dark skinned Ugandan boy, an exact replica of you. He studies Economics here in the University of Pretoria. He is in his first year. I spent about an hour studying beside him. And in that one hour, I stole a thousand glances at him. I wished he was your ghost. Our studying was cut short because the study venue was being prepared for an event. I made sure to introduce myself before I walked away because every 'apparition' of you deserves my respect. However, I did not feel the need to take his number, offer mine or connect any further. There was no need to incarnate you. You still lived in my heart.<br />
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Six days later I saw him again but this time at a distance. He did not see me so I stared as much and as jaw droppingly as I wanted to. But this is not the story I want to tell you on the third memorial of your death. Perhaps this is not the story you want to hear. But I would not know this because you have neither reached back nor connected since you left. It's so frustrating to expect the seemingly impossible. But this is faith isn't it? Believing that the dark silence shall pass and once more there will be words and letters and communication. Or not. Perhaps this silence is bliss. Perhaps this silence is necessary.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2wkanmDt5b0eya2NnOSFvzcm7y9rL0BSdX6q_lwmfGQVkveAAUmbcUmnLXA5_8-Ny6mg-91tjiCXU-cn26q03FoEuRxVz43QHlCkDdEKpX3jNzEFGJYfweVNPXHnHK05-9N8t76ybPb1/s1600/martinsogem-01-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="380" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2wkanmDt5b0eya2NnOSFvzcm7y9rL0BSdX6q_lwmfGQVkveAAUmbcUmnLXA5_8-Ny6mg-91tjiCXU-cn26q03FoEuRxVz43QHlCkDdEKpX3jNzEFGJYfweVNPXHnHK05-9N8t76ybPb1/s400/martinsogem-01-2.jpg" width="375" /></a>You know Oge, sometimes I do not have the luxury of patience or shakara. Time has suddenly become too precious. I just get up and leave. I now find solace for my writing and reading blocks in the most uncanny and unbecoming things like chocolate muffins and custard, like hiding out in the Engineering Library to study human rights, like crying at midnight when I feel like the wall is caving in.<br />
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I have also been banging the door alot these days on my tiredness, on people that won't stop being unreasonable, on my unwaning need to be present even if all it does is feed some age-long misconception that I can not leave.<br />
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But then Oge, the days are not always like this. I have learned to love and laugh and stay when I need to. I have learned that the word 'happy' in happy ending is quite relative. But also that Prince Charming is real.<br />
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On that Oge, the eagle, that eagle, that very eagle has flown. It flew away in March. Now I feel less agitated, less afraid and less inclined to engage in heated debates to assert or defend myself. I feel more alive! The home front is taking it very well, I think. At the time it felt like the right thing to do. I am very happy that I took that decision at that time. The heavens are still up there, and brown bread is still R12.<br />
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This is not the story I want to tell you either.<br />
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Oge, the truth is May 27 is still a dark day for me every year. This year I could not bring myself to tell you any story. My heart is still heavy. And for the first time I considered unloving you because grieving for you gets in the way of everything. But I can not because the memory of you blesses everything. Being with you, and receiving from you, giving to you gave me a lot- and still does. Our friendship was not everything. But it was different, complex, and safe. I wish I could look past the pain of your phyiscal absence and embrace your always being with me, in me and for me.<br />
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Fimi sile Forever is out, and has been lit up in London and Pretoria. Our names engraved in every copy. I have also temporarily withdrawn from the chaos of social media to attend to my art, work and academics. More sweetly Oge, cupid has struck!<br />
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You are here Oge, alive and present. You still live in my heart. I still appreciate that we have moments to remember.<br />
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I still cherish the memory of you. I love you, still- it's not funny anymore.<br />
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Happy memorial Oge.<br />
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Nodi n'udo.<br />
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Oyi gi,<br />
Nnanna <br />
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<br />Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-23525684665521063212017-05-19T08:25:00.001-07:002017-05-19T13:31:56.093-07:00#ChildnotwitchDear Africa,<br />
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As a child I saw the movie 'Battle of Musanga'. A nollywood film. One of the several that I was learning to love. It told the story of Mgbeke, the young Igbo woman who was forced to submit her newly birthed twins to the community because twins were believed to be an abomination.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGssm2zZADj_iyRccW8hU8Hd4_GXiQUyqM8PW0AoVRxy6JRhxaDf1QUO5nqfun5jyEuWAI_uLNG8Ytq-M4P21R3lDG4x20Z66VE7EeaYCNu7gPQlaQ9FG9PJdYHuEjPbdUcKII_KsERBd/s1600/child+not+witch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGssm2zZADj_iyRccW8hU8Hd4_GXiQUyqM8PW0AoVRxy6JRhxaDf1QUO5nqfun5jyEuWAI_uLNG8Ytq-M4P21R3lDG4x20Z66VE7EeaYCNu7gPQlaQ9FG9PJdYHuEjPbdUcKII_KsERBd/s400/child+not+witch.jpg" width="282" /></a>A few years ago, I read Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' where the concept of Ogbanje was explained through storytelling. When children get too sick too often, they must be witches. We must mark them, mark them repeatedly with hot razors so that they dare not return to this world in reincarnation.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSDFvMvC1W69Yd6UxroaOn_Mv34VSiB0nsBMYqb8hHmwXwUeUu4Cb3AX3JjZYCk8Jn3zGFbJ6euOZIidMH7MWPBZ81xnDLZOYhubahlsofDey_XnCmYYCij5IefjgWl3bCGZkG5Zo5QL_u/s1600/child1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSDFvMvC1W69Yd6UxroaOn_Mv34VSiB0nsBMYqb8hHmwXwUeUu4Cb3AX3JjZYCk8Jn3zGFbJ6euOZIidMH7MWPBZ81xnDLZOYhubahlsofDey_XnCmYYCij5IefjgWl3bCGZkG5Zo5QL_u/s320/child1.jpg" width="180" /></a>Ola Rotimi's 'The gods are not to blame' in exploring the Oedipus Rex told us the story that may be explained as the child that should have been killed. And if this child is not killed, the world will pay for it.<br />
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Sometime ago, we saw a flush of movies about child witches, lots and lots of them.<br />
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Children! These movies and art paint them as blood sucking, dark and demonic creatures.<br />
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This rain beats us all. The four year old child in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria now being chained and whipped. The 17 year old gay boy in Owerri, Nigeria starved for days and abandoned in the name of exorcism. Lesbian girls lambasted and raped by prayer warrior after prayer warriors. The victims also include parents, families and communities trapped by age long unquestioned customs of demonising the queer, the beautiful and non-conventional. <br />
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Let us move beyond this, let us learn. Let us untell these stories. Let us right this wrong. Let us accept and protect children, they are not witches!<br />
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Pissed off!<br />
Nnanna<br />
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<br />Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-5134588638787280132017-05-06T15:03:00.001-07:002017-05-06T15:03:32.064-07:00Counting as human first<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGx8xM95t_twgebnX4PPjfIv40w2ByFHCnOAuX1N5H3OUHJMvMIzDH_Dcuw0pIynRIQZdjbdymEj2UStZIRzQjsPGW-q8ivhPXeIzcv_SQ2cKxamg2nKQxJV6YY5w35dTAWRT6Is_JZvS-/s1600/colour1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGx8xM95t_twgebnX4PPjfIv40w2ByFHCnOAuX1N5H3OUHJMvMIzDH_Dcuw0pIynRIQZdjbdymEj2UStZIRzQjsPGW-q8ivhPXeIzcv_SQ2cKxamg2nKQxJV6YY5w35dTAWRT6Is_JZvS-/s400/colour1.jpg" width="400" /></a>It is not often that I identify with the race struggle. One does not
become genuinely emotionally aware of it by reading Nelson Mandela’s
Long Walk to Freedom, seeing Idris Elba’s rendition of the Madiba or the
Sophia town play- although I believe, I came very close. ‘Race’ has not
always my reality. I live here in South Africa but I do not pretend to
understand it fully, yet. What I do share with this reality is the
consciousness of a tedious journey of struggling towards acceptance. If
this is anything to go by, the parallel realities of the several
immutable features that attract pain and exclusion share the same
‘darkness’. These features, race inclusive, are gender and gender
expression, sex and sexuality, disability at several levels, ethnicity
and ancestry, social and political class, religious affiliations or the
lack of it. There will really be no end to this list. But Freedom Day
every year as the celebration of the first time that exclusion was
formally stopped as regards the peoples’ right to vote is not only a
symbol of so much but a parallel victory for every reality that smacks
of discrimination and exclusion.</div>
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You see, elections and voting are not just a political exercise of
slipping cards through card-board slots. They could be symbols of
integration, involvement, community, power and continuous change. They
do not only say that my preference is allowed to count. They also mean
that I am here validly, unapologetically, protected by the structure,
history and aspirations of the state regardless of what, who, where or
how I am. It is not just the protection that counts but that there are
mechanisms set up to ensure that nothing derogates from this status with
impunity. And this idea of this is a beautiful one, phenomenal even.</div>
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However,
this idea does not get realised because the people have a legal right
to participate and contribute. All rights are linked to one another. A
person cannot enjoy his/her/their human rights to participation and
voting if their humanity is not first recognised. This humanity entails
the respect, protection and fulfilment of every human right in the bill
of rights. And for South Africa, given the colonial history, apartheid,
the state’s policing of certain citizens privacy and sexuality,
post-colonial anti-white sentiments, this humanity is strongly pegged on
non-discrimination and inclusion. </div>
The idea of this protection
should mean that I may walk into classrooms and not be looked at
differently because my skin is a shade of brown or black. And that my
white friends are not constantly perceived as predators and oppressors.
That waiters in restaurants do not look at me strangely because I am in a
visibly biracial or same-sex relationship. This should mean that I may
hold my head up high as I walk through the streets or into health care
centres and police stations regardless of whether my sexual inclinations
and gender presentations are known and visible. This should mean that
the kink in my hair, sway in my hips or the lack of one or both does not
get in the way of working at work, learning at school, and ‘churching’
at church. This should mean that my life, culture, health and living
standards should matter when state policies and plans are being made.
This should mean that the great, little, dissimilar and similar should
see me as deserving and worthy of visibility, audibility and engagement -
and I reciprocating the same the whole time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sourced from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-garner/southern-gay-men-and-interracial-dating_b_5660825.html</td></tr>
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Still, it is not
often that I identify with the race struggle. It has not always been
part of my reality. I know about the struggles of sexuality, gender,
ethnicity and religion. I know about being looked down on because by
some standards I am not cis-gender and Christian. I know about being a
stranger and hiding my ‘Nigerianness’ to protect myself from homophobia
and xenophobia, to guard against physical, mental and emotional
hostility and to live one more productive day. I know about being silent
because my spoken words do not flow out articulately and struggling to
compete with the same rules as persons who do not stutter. I know about
fear and repression and that my scars are not instigators but a bench
mark on how people must never be treated. Most importantly, I know that
the Freedom Day should mean more than voting because history exists as a
symbol to be celebrated, learned from, project further and not to be
limited by. I know that Freedom Day means that in our dissimilarities,
we should all count the same.</div>
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Originally published on SOGIE Diaries: http://www.chr.up.ac.za/index.php/sogie-diaries-blog/1795-counting-as-humans-first.html </div>
Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-30538114227539787152017-03-20T01:57:00.001-07:002017-03-20T05:55:32.412-07:00On Chimamanda's 'anti-trans' statementDear Africa,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</td></tr>
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The experiences are not the same for a cis-gender person and a transgender person. This is because while experiences are partly based on internal interpretations, they are also partly based on external environments, prejudices and circumstances. A trans-man while addressing a colloqium on Sexualities a few weeks ago here in the University of Pretoria relayed that he realises that he has come into male privilege because he now appears to unsuspecting patriachal eyes as cis-gender. 'My girlfriend is ignored when we go out together but I am acknowledged. When the bill gets to the table, it is handed to me.' He is naturally able to see, tell and feel this difference in how the society treats men and women. He is more sensitive to this than I am, and perhaps more than I can ever be.<br />
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As a mostly cis-gender male myself, I have never had the feeling of culture shock that this trans-man had and others have when they realise they are treated differently from what had been obtainable before their physical transition. I am not saddled with internal gender struggles or the history of not being taken seriously for not having a dick or not being seen as my family's secure link to the continuity of lineage. Among these, there are several other levels of varying experiences that distinguishes a trans-man from me.<br />
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I do not consider trans-men any less 'masculine' or genuinely 'male' than I am. But I have a special respect for them which is defined and fed by my recognition and acknowledgement of their historical, personal and individual backgrounds and journies. In this light, I strongly understand Adichie's statement to be rooted in her reluctance to flatten the uniqueness of trangender existence and identity by unduly submerging it in the almost homogenous ocean of cis-gender identity and experience. But she is careful to note that 'diversity is not difference'. As such saying- or I believe she is saying- that there are all sorts of women, but they are women still.<br />
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Being a trans-woman does not negate or dilute the authenticity of womanhood. It only makes you the trans-woman part of a category(transgender) within a category(women). Of course, the conversation is still on, but I believe that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a valid position on the subject. It is misconstruing, I believe, to regard her respect for the trans-community as being exclusionary and demeaning.<br />
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And to Chimamanda, I celebrate and agree with you. Jisike!<br />
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Resolved!<br />
Nnanna<br />
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Image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche sourced from https://www.wsj.com/articles/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-the-world-of-african-literature-1430504839<br />
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More on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's statement :<br />
http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apology<br />
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-channel-4-interview-views-lgbt-raquel-willis-a7628571.html<br />
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<br />Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-76556406494160604562017-03-08T08:41:00.001-08:002017-03-16T19:27:09.213-07:00The Women I Celebrate<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw0yD04D_oqNbjAtI_WBkURh8DnT_3tM7OCj4exu5OENA1810tqwdagAcb1v9hQsou-9rU5x1qnULENQ1MIK1kNPHY72QF-xgGzmwXwBZ0qJVBeX0RQtrgU7L7OnfO6MoRZsa0bwOIjoui/s1600/vlcsnap-2016-12-27-09h05m50s957.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw0yD04D_oqNbjAtI_WBkURh8DnT_3tM7OCj4exu5OENA1810tqwdagAcb1v9hQsou-9rU5x1qnULENQ1MIK1kNPHY72QF-xgGzmwXwBZ0qJVBeX0RQtrgU7L7OnfO6MoRZsa0bwOIjoui/s640/vlcsnap-2016-12-27-09h05m50s957.png" width="640" /></a>Dear Africa<br />
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Today I celebrate the 'Sahhara's and 'Caitlyn's among us. The 'Anastacia's, those of us who are genuinely women whether the world likes it or not. I celebrate the Tamales and Khumalos, those whose femininity are not contested but who choose to jump in the fire still to be the voice of those who are not yet powerful enough to speak and be heard.<br />
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I celebrate the Owenus and Nnajis whose gifts have paved the paths of our childhood. Whose talents have taught me love, coquettery and 'Ekwe'.<br />
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The most of all, I celebrate those who have lived their lives singing, yet unsung, pouring their core into us: My mum Doris Ikpo, my sisters, cousins, aunts and even neices and daughters unborn- unconceived even.<br />
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I celebrate the men who do not think they have to step aside but are happy to stand beside unchallenged yet applauding. And the men who can tell the emptiness of violence, chauvinism and suppression from the blessings of inclusion, affirmation and conversations and the choose the better.<br />
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I celebrate the children that are watching(reading, learning, hearing, feeling and knowing) . Also I celebrate the large board rooms, organisations and little backyard kitchens that discuss women in a positive light. And the ones that have opened new doors, written new books and requested that we all be feminists.<br />
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Feeling a bit festive(and nervous)<br />
Nnanna<br />
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(#HappyInternationalWomen's Day)Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-14932103242544323022017-02-13T22:13:00.001-08:002017-02-13T22:27:31.629-08:00The sun was rising<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mum
woke everyone in the house: dad, three of our cousins, two uncles and one aunt,
all my sisters. We assembled at the Obi downstairs. Mum while in her night
dress had adorned herself with the traditional red coral beads. And dad as
well. We said a short prayer. She asked my partner and I to kneel before her
and dad. She asked us to wash our hands together in clear bowl of water with so
many udala seeds in them. After we did that, she asked the youngest of our
cousins to pass the bowl round till every one got a seed. It finally got to us,
but one was left. She it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> placed on the floor between us. Then dad spoke, ‘we don’t
pretend to understand why you have chosen this man, we don’t understand why he
has chosen you. But who can question the validity of what you both have and share? We cannot
question the hand of God here. We all bare witness to your union this night. We
bless and agree with you. Our ancestors and God before them agree as well. You
both will grow forests together. Your seeds shall be nourished with the purest
of rain and soil. The storms shall rage fire and not blow it out. You both
shall enjoy this youth and grow old together. Let the ancestors curse whoever
gets in the way of this blessing. Let the ancestors bless whoever gives way for
this blessing. Let God Almighty never blink on your case…. ’ the blessings went on, tears poured down my
eyes. Finally I was getting married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
we left Nigeria, a few weeks later, we had yams and palmoil. And lengths of
plain goerge material. My partner's skin glowed contrasting sharply with red
wrist corals that dad had given him to celebrate his manhood. Mum’s corals hung
lightly on mine. Nigeria was giving in, the sun was rising.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Happy St. Valentine's Day Africa!</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p>Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-19108740551966342862017-02-08T23:48:00.000-08:002017-02-09T03:04:33.748-08:00Let's pretend that we are 'TANZANIA'Dear Africa,<br />
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We are pretending again. We are pretending that there is one way, just one way of 'be-ing'. So we hit hard on every other thing that diverges from that one way. The most recent, Tanzania. They are pretending that it's okay to run amok on the lives of people who have chosen to speak, write and say the things that others pretend not to know or see.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Gn6bndDZnR8f5G6GD1gbx70gvOY-Qh19FIlMqj9lXUupntidn7uQDpAQVoPS3vYoMIoFRJ_asrYp8rkTs3CyBiNoz7MPDIa7CpEysrfSlSFzLPXgx8A1icO6zaJOOhqqBLRWJKdzz8Xe/s1600/Tanzania-Flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Gn6bndDZnR8f5G6GD1gbx70gvOY-Qh19FIlMqj9lXUupntidn7uQDpAQVoPS3vYoMIoFRJ_asrYp8rkTs3CyBiNoz7MPDIa7CpEysrfSlSFzLPXgx8A1icO6zaJOOhqqBLRWJKdzz8Xe/s320/Tanzania-Flag.jpg" width="320" /></a>They pretend that they have no need to lubricants or that the battle against HIV/AIDS is no longer <br />
a worthy cause . Of course all Tanzanians are either naturally asexual or are capable of secreting natural lubricants in the course of intercourse- they had better. They pretend the 'homosexuality is un-African' argument has not reasonably been trashed all over by arguments more valid and more practical. But this pretension has gotten out of hand Africa. Some of them now wake up in the morning and decide that all of Tanzania should be subject to laws no one legislated. 'Promoting homosexuality'! How does a person do that? Does a person's genitalia get lectured on what or who to erect or moisten for and when or how to erect or moisten? Or is a person's heart trashed repeatedly, fiercely...so hard that it will never beat or love again the way heaven has scripted it to? How, Africa, does a person promote homosexuality?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced from the movie 'Naz & Maalik'</td></tr>
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Even if there was a way homosexuality could be promoted, do you think it would compete with our corruption and bigotry? Scratch that. Do you think throwing people into detention without due process and bending to laws imagined through undemocratic whims, does not create a trend that will soon come back to haunt you, us? Look Africa, bigotry, discrimination, inhumanity, unfairness is a poison that will spread once it is allowed. Injustice validates further injustice. Perhaps tomorrow it won't be people writing freely on the internet, or loving freely, it will be the Igbos in Nigeria that now think the presence of an Hausa/ Fulani person(or anyone not traditionally Igbo) is a threat to their security and perhaps attack. Or the Hausa/ Fulani cattle herders that think that an affront to their cattle is a sin worth killing for. Oh dear, so sorry Africa, that's not tomorrow. It's happening right now!<br />
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Tyranny and institutionalised homophobia or hate such as what is happening in Tanzania only begets more, poisoning all of us. Some people are behind bars right now, not for a crime, but because some one powerful enough does not like anything that smacks of homosexuality or not being traditionally ordinary. What will this person not like tomorrow?<br />
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Let's pretend we are Tanzania. Let's pretend that hate and intolerance are okay. But while we are pretending, let's buy umbrella's of steel(if it will be of any help) because hate is an acid that will rain if we don't smack out of it, if we don't stop pretending.<br />
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Stop it Africa! Stop it!<br />
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Frantic,<br />
NnannaNnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-5813495387794380762017-02-04T04:09:00.003-08:002017-02-04T04:31:52.524-08:00Master class: how studying towards a masters degree helped me discover my identityby Mulesa Lumina<br />
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(Winner of First Prize, Dean's Essay Award, Faculty of Law University of Pretoria South Africa)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I’ve always believed that there
is great value in education, particularly higher education which is a privilege
granted only to a lucky few. I don’t value my legal education for the monetary
gains or prestige that it can bring but rather, for the skills it has equipped
me with to make a career out of ‘making a difference’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well as the lessons it has taught me about
life, love, sexuality, spirituality, relationships, family, careers and human
behaviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">After roughly two years of
seemingly never-ending masters and scholarship applications and taking the time
to get some ‘real world’ experience, I was finally set to embark on my 1-year
LLM journey. While my real world experience provided <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>me with a great deal of perspective and
insight into where I see myself in the near future, the last ten months have had
the most profound impact on me in a way that I could not have possibly
imagined. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Never
in my life have I experienced anything as academically stimulating, highly
demanding and mentally-challenging as this academic programme. I knew doing a
masters degree would be tough but I must have taken for granted just how much.
After the intensity of the first semester subsided and we made it through relatively
unscathed, I had time to reflect on the half-year that was and revisit some of
the hobbies I’d neglected in order to get through it. It’s been exceptionally
taxing but </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I
wouldn’t trade this experience for anything because it’s helped me reshape my
professional and personal goals and understand exactly what I’d like my legacy
to be. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Last year, I started two blogs:
one on fashion and the other on the theme of identity, but more specifically on
how growing up away from my ancestral culture has affected my developing a
sense of identity in my teens and early adulthood. I was born in the UK to
Zambian parents, I hold a Zambian passport and have spent my formative years
between Australia, Swaziland, Zambia and South Africa (where I’ve completed the
bulk of my education and have been permanently resident for the past ten years
or so).It’s not a particularly novel thing to go through a bit of an identity
crisis when you’ve spent a significant portion of your developmental years
outside your country of origin but it’s a subject that’s very personal to me
and, as I came to discover, something that affects many people across the world.
A </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">surprising consequence of my LLM studies is that I’ve once again become
hyper-aware of my cultural identity (or lack thereof). In a programme that
emphasises acquiring skills and knowledge to improve the human rights situation
in one’s ‘home’ country, feeling like I don’t have a home makes for great
opportunity to learn from my classmates but at the same time makes me feel
disconnected from my passport country and the African continent generally.</span></div>
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classmates and I introduced ourselves countless times while attending short
courses, lectures and some special events. The introductions been rather exhausting
for the entire class but I came to regard the exercise as a bit of anathema because
I was constantly confronted with a question that I do not particularly enjoy
answering: ‘where do you come from?’ Initially, I would give my go-to responses:
‘I’m Zambian but I live in South Africa’ or ‘I’m ‘originally’ Zambian’ but five
introductory speeches in, I grew tired of adding the qualification to my answer
and would simply respond ‘I’m Zambian.’ I would then pray to my creator that I
wouldn’t be called upon to educate the class about the political, legal or
human rights situation in Zambia of which I had very limited knowledge when I
first started the programme. It may seem strange or even comical that a
question as simple as ‘any Zambians in the class?’ could make my palms clammy
and my heart start racing for fear of being exposed as a ‘fake’ Zambian but it made
me incredibly anxious until I decided to steer into the skid and focus on my studies.
</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">The wonderful thing
about human rights issues is that they affect all people the world over
regardless of background, age, race, status, religious affiliation or
orientation. Moreover, there are so many different capacities in which every
person on the planet can contribute to the advancement of human rights. I
believe this is what drew me to the field in the first place, especially being
someone who comes from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Linked to my identity, for the
longest time the ‘feminist’ label bothered me immensely. The programme has,
however, led to a change within me and I now where the badge with great pride. While
I’m more inclined to the business and human rights side of things - a passion
which the programme helped me nurture through clinic work, a short course and
my dissertation - I developed a deep interest in women’s rights advocacy. Two
or three years ago, if someone had asked me if I consider myself a feminist I
would most likely have said no. Painfully ironic considering I strongly believe
in equal rights and opportunities for all people, staunchly advocate women’s
empowerment and fiercely defend women’s rights. I’m ashamed to admit that I
naively bought into ridiculous feminist stereotypes of the radical, man-hating,
bra-burning, perpetual spinsters and felt unworthy to put myself in the same
class as distinguished and seemingly elitist Germaine Greer-type feminist
scholars and philosophers. But I believe I rejected the label primarily because
I used to be uncomfortable with the inherently divisive nature of labelling
people. This discomfort also stems from my inability to develop a firm grasp on
a linguistic and cultural identity connected to my country of origin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">My opinions on feminism were
altered during the thematic week on Gender, particularly when I attended a
lecture delivered by Professor Sylvia Tamale. I immediately took a liking to
her. It’s incredible how another human being can make such an impression on you
at your first-ever meeting but this is the effect Prof. Tamale had on me and
part of the reason I chose Makerere University as my second semester
destination. As a Zambian woman who has lived amongst a range of different
cultural groupings for most of her life but whose parents continually imbued
her with some of their cultural values and did not wholly abandon many of their
cultures’ practices, I straddle different sides like many African women my age.
I try as much as possible to harmonise all facets of my cultural identity but
they are often at odds with each other. In some measure, Prof. Tamale’s teaching
and writings taught me that I don’t necessarily have to break one down in
favour of the other as they are all-encompassing of my identity. I had the
privilege of attending her inaugural lecture, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nudity, Protests and the Law,</i> in which she reflected upon the internal
moral dilemmas she wrestled with when her friend and colleague Dr. Stella
Nyanzi carried out a nude protest earlier this year. Her openness and honesty about
fighting to retain her feminist identity in the wake of such a shocking event
so close to home and what it said about the objectification and sexualisation
of the female form further ignited my new-found passion for feminist
activism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I now realise that it is
incumbent upon me as an African human rights defender from a privileged background
to become actively involved in combating the many injustices that myself and my
sisters on the continent face daily. Not only will I be doing this in my
professional life but in my creative endeavours as well. Blogging is my art and
a medium through which I have found my voice. I’ve truly been inspired by our
lectures on art and human rights taught <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by
the quirky Marissa Gutièrrez and those on human rights advocacy by the
brilliant Professor Liz Griffin to transform my blogging into a platform for pushing
my activist agenda. My fashion blog has already been a platform for me to
discuss a variety of subjects including history, race, art, sexuality, culture
and feminism to some extent. I have come up with a variety of new pieces and
ideas for both of my blogs, stimulated by my LLM studies, for my audience to
enjoy, be inspired by and reflect critically on pressing human rights issues. I
will continue in this spirit going forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">It’s a bittersweet moment for
me as my long and difficult LLM journey comes to an end but it’s been the most
enriching experience, allowing me to forge wonderful friendships, hone important
professional skills, travel and learn two new languages. Most importantly, the
programme has helped me discover the identity I’ve been searching for since adolescence.
I’m no longer afraid to label myself. I’m Zambian, African, feminist, activist,
blogger and significantly, I’m a graduate of the LLM in HRDA programme 2016.</span><br />
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Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-79498220544656702142016-12-26T17:00:00.002-08:002016-12-26T17:05:54.573-08:00 APPEAL LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY SHEIKH PROFESSOR ALHAJI DR. YAHYA A.J.J. JAMMEH BABILI MANSA BY GAMBIANS IN THE DIASPORA<span class="_5yl5"> Your Excellency, </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQT8BwHvrKN6djdkKyHPCGR2CVMFYg-11T9i1eA8fAAJhlXMTi-FuGhfFDFecmS-EeEF3zDqeDyUTJaNzYpTINBEgkvIaqIau8DrI5VtfuxCQ5SYaNRNHb-kiXgmqP9iNOwEqL4QSgV1lL/s1600/gambia_640.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQT8BwHvrKN6djdkKyHPCGR2CVMFYg-11T9i1eA8fAAJhlXMTi-FuGhfFDFecmS-EeEF3zDqeDyUTJaNzYpTINBEgkvIaqIau8DrI5VtfuxCQ5SYaNRNHb-kiXgmqP9iNOwEqL4QSgV1lL/s400/gambia_640.png" width="400" /></a><span class="_5yl5">We, the Gambians representing our nation overseas, extend our thanks and appreciation to Your Excellency, The Government and People of The Gambia for the smooth and peaceful conclusion of the December 1st Presidential Elections which you described as transparent, free and fair. Both local and international election observers also certified the whole process as credible. Yourstatesmanly and televised acceptance of the election results in favour of the Coalition candidate on December 2nd, was acclaimed and applauded throughout the world. The fact that you further congratulated Mr. Barrow on his victory and assured him of your support and guidance was testimony to the fact that you care for the progressive development of The Gambia in a peaceful and orderly transition. Many of us have received commendations on your behalf in our various jurisdictions from individuals and institutions citing your action as the dawn of a new era in African politics and democracy. </span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">Your Excellency, we were taken aback by your pronouncement on National Television on December 9th, rejecting the results. This new position of Your Excellency has the potential of undermining the peace and stability that The Gambia is renowned for.
Your Excellency, in the light of the foregoing, we strongly appeal for you to accept the choice of The Gambian people and facilitate a peaceful transfer of power to the President-Elect, Mr. Adama Barrow.
Meanwhile we applaud the efforts of the international community especially the UN, AU and ECOWAS mission headed by Her Excellency Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in their quest to bring about a peaceful resolution of the current political impasse in our motherland, The Gambia. </span></div>
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<span class="_5yl5">In conclusion Your Excellency, we once again implore you to consider our plea which is aimed at achieving the greater good for our beloved country, The Gambia.
Please accept Your Excellency, the assurances of our highest consideration and esteem. </span></div>
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<span class="_5yl5">Basamba Drammeh</span></div>
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<span class="_5yl5"> Activist</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">(Image of the Gambian flag is sourced from http://www.freeflagicons.com/country/gambia/flag_background/ ) </span></div>
Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3926067066998177142.post-19199939001057122542016-12-13T23:28:00.004-08:002016-12-13T23:31:06.814-08:00Oremi Innocence<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="height: 215px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 433px;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sourced from 'Longest Ride' the movie</td></tr>
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I have stolen the innocence from between us</div>
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That we no longer love like children</div>
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I have stolen the innocence from between us</div>
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That we now crave that we are together alone</div>
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Every time our eyes meet</div>
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It's like we say a thousand words to each other</div>
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And yet it feels like we have said nothing</div>
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I have stolen the innocence from our hearts</div>
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Now I feel the sting of regret</div>
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And I miss your laughter</div>
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I miss the way you used to look at me</div>
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Uncertain of whether or not the innocence was worth keeping</div>
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Until I stole the innocence from between us</div>
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Oremi, perhaps saying sorry won't fix it</div>
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But I assure you that I regret that we no longer love like children</div>
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That we no longer are</div>
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Perhaps</div>
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Perhaps</div>
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Perhaps, this innocence was the only thing between us!</div>
<br />Nnanna Ikpohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745656548271234443noreply@blogger.com0