ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the challenges that members of the LGBTQ community face in Africa. For instance, countries such as Uganda and Nigeria enacted laws criminalizing homosexuality. Since then there have been numerous cases of violence against members of the LGBTQ community. This chapter analyzes Chinelo Okparanta’s novel Under the Udala Tree, documentary film Call Me Kuchu, and the selected poetry of African gay and lesbian writers, all of which highlight the condition of people of alternative sexualities as vulnerable members of society who seek the most fundamental form of justice: recognition of their dignity as humans.
