Zikoko
June 12, 2025 at 01:38 PM
In 2020, Pamela Adie released Ìfé, the first full-fledged lesbian movie in Nollywood history. In this deeply personal essay for Zikoko, she opens up about what led her to produce it.
https://www.zikoko.com/pop/why-i-made-a-nollywood-film-about-lesbians-in-nigeria/
"I grew up with no language or framework to understand queerness. I didn’t know any openly queer people, and I certainly didn’t see myself in Nollywood. I followed the script I was handed: I married a man. I wasn’t in love, but it felt like the 'normal' thing to do — the thing that would make my family proud, the thing society expected," she writes.
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