Bisi Alimi

Bisi Alimi is a British-Nigerian gay rights activist, public speaker, blog writer and HIV/LGBT advocate who gained international attention when he became the first Nigerian to come out on television. Over the preceding years of his coming out, Bisi has and is using class room/ public lecturing and TEDx TALKs as means of voicing out the economic, health, legal and socio-cultural concerns of LGBTQ+ persons on the African continent. Between 2014 and 2016, he was a visiting lecturer at Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität in Berlin, where he taught “Pre- and Post-Colonial Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Africa”. He has written many controversial opinion pieces including “Men can’t be Feminist”, “I am no longer talking to Black Africans about Race”, “Why It’s So Dangerous To Pretend That Racism Doesn’t Exist” and many others. “The Development Cost of Homophobia” is his most successful article that was translated into over 15 languages globally. Finally, his article for The Guardian “If you say being gay is not African, you don’t know your history” has gone on to great review and cited in many news articles and journals globally.