Within the past five years, we’ve seen a sea change in attitudes towards homosexuality by writers, in part a response to virulent anti-homosexual legislation in key locations. Writers such as Chimamanda Adichie and Binyavanga Wainaina have been very open about their personal views on homosexuality and have gone on to challenge and change how homosexuality and same-sex desire is represented in fiction.
Over at Africa Is a Country, Ainehi Edoro and Neelika Jayawardane consider how the representation of homosexuality in literary fiction by African writers has changed in the last few years, thanks in particular to writers such as Chimamanda Adichie and Diriye Osman.
