David Nnanna C. Ikpo is a Nigerian lawyer and storyteller with a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is presently the Communications Officer at the Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression Unit, Centre for Human Rights where he is also a doctoral candidate. He is a member of the Queer Space Collective, an informal group with the vision of making the University of Pretoria safer and more inclusive of queer identity and expression through creative writing. He runs his personal blog ‘Letters to My Africa’ and has just released his debut novel Fimí sílẹ̀ Forever which addresses the dire state of sexual and gender minority rights in Nigeria, among other themes.
