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Kayode Ani

Ani Kayode Somtochukwu is a writer and queer liberation activist from Enugu, Nigeria. His work explores themes of African queer identity, resistance, and liberation, and has been featured in literary magazines and prize anthologies across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and his debut novel, And Then He Sang a Lullaby, won the 2024 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was Gold Winner for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award (Literary Fiction).  
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    Aesthetic Nostalgia

    Before I fell in love with my name, my biggest reservation was that it gave people an impression of my father I knew to be inexact. These days, because of how much I love my name, it is easy to…