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What does it mean to be a queer woman in Nigeria?
What does it mean to be gay in a country that criminalises homosexuality? A book 'She Called Me Woman' has collected accounts from queer Nigerian women about their experience of living in a society where you can be arrested for showing affection to someone of the same sex in public. We speak to one of the co-editors, Chitra Nagarajan.
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