Chike Frankie Edozien

Chike Frankie Edozien (born 10 June 1970) is a Nigerian-American writer and journalist. He is currently the director of New York University, Accra. He directed the New York University Journalism Institute's Ghana-based Reporting Africa program from 2008 to 2019.

Quotes

• I want LGBT Africans to be at home everywhere.
  • ‘I Want LGBT Africans to Be at Home Everywhere’: A Q&A With Chike Frankie Edozien

• Ghana is not a developed nation; it is a developing nation. And with that comes a lot of challenges but also a lot of opportunities to do very meaningful work.
• To have an African experience in your undergraduate years is a wonderful thing, but to be able to do it in a place where you have access to everyone, where almost nothing is beyond your grasp—that’s really quite an experience.
• At this site in West Africa, we are part of the conversation in a way that works toward healing.
  • In and of the City: A Conversation with NYU Accra Director Chiké Frankie Edozien

Lives of Great Men (2017)

• Having found a career where my sexual orientation hadn’t been an issue, I wondered if I’d be able to work full-time in Lagos at a high level without this ersatz symbol of maturity.
  • PRELUDE: FORGETTING LAMIDO, Page 12

• Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time.
  • One: Leaving Lagos, page 33

• Sure, there are some things that are common to both movements, but except in limited individual cases, gays and lesbians have never suffered anything approaching the oppression of African-Americans. They were not lynched because they were gay, they were not brought here in chains because of their sexual orientation, they were not deprived of the right to vote because they like people of the same gender, and no White girl in the United States has ever been killed for whistling at a White woman.
  • THREE: OUT @ Work, page 51