Jude Dibia is an author, queer rights advocate, winner of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize, and shortlisted for the Nigeria Literature Prize, CommonWealth Prize and the Swedish Naturoch Kulture Pris. His debut novel 'Walking with Shadows' is the first full length novel devoted to queer issues in Nigeria. Dibia currently lives in Sweden where he works with displaced artists as the administrator of the Malmö City refuge artists' program.



Olumide F. Makanjuola is a Sexual Health and Rights advocate with specific interest in LGBT rights. Makanjuola's work focuses on expanding public knowledge and discourse on queer issues through new and alternative narratives. He is an alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Programs and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.