The question is not whether you can bear to read this story. The question is whether you can bear not to.
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This is my testimony. It begins in Owerri, in the poverty and the silence of a childhood where the people meant to protect you are the ones you learn to fear, and it follows me through police stations, a lawyer's office, hospital beds and the long indifference of institutions that were built to look away.
It is called Owerri to London because two brothers made two different choices. One fled to London. One stayed in Nigeria and kept knocking on doors that never opened. I am the one who stayed, for as long as I could.
I did not write it to win anyone's sympathy. I wrote it because silence only protects the guilty, and because a life like mine deserves to be recorded even when justice never arrives. Names and some details are changed. The crimes are real. The evidence exists.
Who this book is for
Read it if you have ever wondered whether justice exists for people like me. Read it if you work with refugees, with survivors, with LGBT+ people from countries that criminalise them. Read it if you are Nigerian and want to know what the country does to its own.
Where the money goes
Money from the books pays for the support line: airtime for the volunteers, and small emergency payments to LGBT+ Nigerians who need a night somewhere safe, a bus fare out of a dangerous town, or a clinic visit. If you would rather give directly, use the Buy Me a Coffee page.