“Thanks to the internet people are seeing that being gay doesn’t make you a devil, and there are places where you can be free. “Many African countries are losing their human capital wherein skilled, educated gay people are leaving because they don’t want to lead a false life,” he said. He’s also concerned about the ongoing ‘hidden migration’, something that India has also seen. Edozien, who teaches international reporting at New York University and is director of the ‘Reporting Africa’ programme based in Accra, Ghana, aims to train future correspondents to view Africa with nuance and break old stereotypes. “India is a commonwealth country with the same history and legal network that we have and what we have seen in India makes us feel that maybe one day we can get to where you people are,” he said during the discussion moderated by Sunil Menon, founder of Sahodaran. “It has given a glimmer of hope, it shows that if you keep going and chip away, change will happen,” he said.
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