Due to some #insomnia this week I have been getting through a good bit of reading and need to recommend Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde to everyone who hasn't read it.
It's set in #Lagos and tells stories of various #LGBTQIA+ and other marginalised characters, going between the real world and the dream/spirit world.
Picked it up at the library with no idea what to expect and so glad I did, brilliant book.
#EloghosaOsunde #Vagabonds #Books #Fiction

Read this, about queer love, justice, and liberation, so vividly written.

“Finally, just for the thrill of it, they decided to run down Awolowo Road. You should have seen them: fairygodgirls, and lost-but-found girls, their hair haywire against the sky, breeze speeding against the backs of their necks. They looked like angels.”

#EloghosaOsunde #Vagabonds!
#Queer #LGBTQ #Books #Bookstodon

https://www.eloghosaosunde.com/vagabonds

Ugandan colonial-era law was used to keep 'rogue' blacks away from whites. It became a law for harassing LGBT Ugandans. Now it's gone.

https://76crimes.com/2023/01/13/court-kills-rogue-and-vagabond-laws-that-target-ugandan-sexual-minorities/

#LGBT #LGBTrights #LGBTQ #LGBTQrights #vagabonds #loitering #Uganda #BritishEmpire

#RT

Just this year
wrote an important book
Eloghosa gave us a Bible
Akwaeke gifted us with the messiest and most beautiful love story you would ever see. They also bared their souls to us.
Aiwanose reminded us of the burden of womanhood

I am full..

#AfricanLiterature
#ArinzeIfeakandu #AkwaekeEmezi #EloghosaOsunde
#BlackTwitter
#Vagabonds!

https://twitter.com/ka_karang/status/1603200214449496064

#DavidTennant supports #LGBTQ folks,

and that just as Itohan Esekheigbe goes #DoctorWho defending #Vagabonds! (by #Eloghosa #Osunde)

There have been dark clouds brewing in Nigerian writing canon, as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turned to #transphobia. It's widely assumed that #CNA's recent horrid essay was pointing to two fellow writers — #Akwaeke #Emezi and #Eloghosa #Osunde.

Traditionalist, regressivist, reactionary forces follow in JKR footsteps, and new young voices defy them!

This is #Vagabonds! meaning, it's resistance, it's defiance, it's individuality and every kind self-determination.

Beautiful words in Itohan Esekheigbe’s dedication of A Contrastive Analysis on the Characters, Their Actions and the Settings in E #Osunde’s Vagabonds! and #Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah:

“I would like to dedicate this project to myself, for all the sleepless nights and mental breakoun it took to make this possible. I would also like to dedicate this to the incorrigible vagabonds, for daring to exist in yourself as you are”

#BlackTwitter #Nigeria #Naija #Vagabonds!

https://twitter.com/hecallsmemilan/status/1600912008169541633