THE SHIT AND THE SUN RISE

153pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, iwalewa books, Johannesburg, Lagos, Frankfurt, 2025

ISBN: 9783947902378

In this anthology queer Nigerian writers and artists reflect on the complexities of their lives in the city of Lagos, and in Nigeria as a whole, where they are forced to navigate the tension between hope and despair, between dreaming and surviving under the weight of legal and social repression.

Contributions include:

"The Shit and the Sun Rise, on the inconvenience of queer artistic practice in Lagos/ Nigeria" by Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

"GIRL-BOY, a disturbance of liberating proportions" by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

"Queer Nigerian Photography: negotiating resistance and integrity" by Martha Sambe

"Neutral Tones, Radical Thoughts: The art of Jeffrey Okosisi" by Somtochukwu W. Okoroafor

"Iwòri `Mìejì: The Shit and Queern-ess" by Ayodele Olofintuade.