Xaviere's novel is a welcome addition to the growing list of literature centring queer lives in African societies eager to deny their existence with claims that they are un-African or misguided vessels of Western immorality.
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She Called Me Woman is a portrait of 25 queer Nigerian women. Their anonymised, first-person accounts range from family dynamics to childhood memories to first sexual encounters. With the exception of two narrators, the women reflect on what it’s like living as a queer person in Nigeria.
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