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Description
Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man is a 2017 memoir by Nigerian-American journalist and writer Chike Frankie Edozien. Combining autobiography, travel writing, and oral history, the book documents the experiences of gay Africans in Nigeria and across the African diaspora, drawing on the author's personal experiences and encounters with LGBTQ individuals in several African countries. The memoir has been described as the first published memoir by a Nigerian gay man and one of the earliest book-length accounts of LGBTQ life written by a Nigerian author.
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