A beautiful, poignant, and inspiring memoir about growing up Nigerian and cosmopolitan, about being gay and deeply human. Edozien weaves an absorbing tale about ...

The fabulous title of Chike Frankie Edozien's memoir Lives of Great Men is taken from Longfellow's poem “A Psalm of Life”, which Chike had to learn, by ...

Nov 24, 2017 · Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien is a beautifully written memoir chronicling the lives of great men and womxn from the continent.

"Frankie Edozien's The Lives of Great Men is an incredibly powerful portrayal of what it means to be a gay Nigerian man. But what makes this book so outstanding ...

Edozien's book is at once a memoir, a love-letter to Africa, and a remarkable group portrait of same-gender loving Africans. Traveling around the world—from ...

Oct 26, 2018 · In this luminous book, we are exposed to a universe of important but untold stories: the queer African is brought out of the shade of society's ...

"Frankie Edozien writes with an urgency that is compelling, with a vulnerable honesty that is disarming and impressive, and with elegance about his life and a ...

May 14, 2022 · Edozien, Chike Frankie, 1970- author. Publication date: 2017. Topics: Edozien, Chike Frankie, 1970-, Gay men -- Nigeria -- Biography ...

Nov 24, 2017 · "Frankie Edozien writes with an urgency that is compelling, with a vulnerable honesty that is disarming and impressive, and with elegance about ...

Yet he remains hopeful, and this memoir, which is pacy, romantic and funny by turns, is also a love-letter to Africa, above all to Nigeria and the megalopolis ...