Africa: Have You Seen Dakan, the Guinean Queer Classic? It Changed My Life

In the face of caricatures and erasure, filmmakers must defy the odds to tell authentic stories of queer lives.

The first time I saw two men in a romantic relationship was in a Nollywood film. Released in 2010, Men In Love starred Nigeria’s Muna Obiekwe (Alex) and Ghana’s John Dumelo (Charles) as former classmates, turned business associates, turned lovers.

The story of their “romance”, however, is deeply problematic. At the start of the film, Charles is heterosexual and married. It is only after…