Award winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has put in some words regarding the recently approved anti-gay bill which bans every gay marriage, same-sex “amorous relationships” and membership of gay rights groups in Nigeria.
In her newly published article ‘Why can’t he just be like everyone else,” Chimamanda painted the story of a young man called Sochukwuma whom she described as “a thin, smiling boy who liked to play with us- girls at the university primary school in Nsukka. We were young. We knew he was different, we said, “he’s not like the other boys.” But his was a benign and unquestioned difference; it was simply what it was. We did not have a name for him. We did not know the word ‘gay.’”






