In this episode, Uche Ezejiofor speaks with Sierra Leonean recording artist Kenzo Cole about their experience as a queer, gender non-conforming first generation Sierra Leonean in America.

Dazed magazine’s 2017 article covering the House of Kings and Queens, a secret, self-constructed LGBT sanctuary in Sierra Leone: https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/36873/1/lee-price-photos-of-sierra-leones-lgbt-community-where-gay-is-a-sin 

Curated by MIT Press Direct, the following are a selection of political cartoons drawn by African artists expressing the push factors of emigration from Africa: https://direct.mit.edu/afar/article/53/3/30/93187/Migration-Emigration-and-Immigration-African

Intro/Outro Music: Decisions by Kenzo Cole

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