Lagos

Nigerian LGBQT activists Freddie Jacob, Matthew Blaise and Victor Emmanuel joined the End Sars marches only to find fellow protesters turned on them. The activists who marched with the hashtag ‘Queer Lives Matter’ say that the fight for oppression should include Nigeria’s LGBT community too.

Our campaign’s simple demands to end casual police cruelty have been met with indiscriminate violence. This is what I’ve seen on the ground in Lagos.