Controversial
Nigerian media figure, Funmi Iyanda has helped a gay Nigerian man
living abroad to come clean about his s*xuality.
A collage of pictures of Funmi Iyanda and Akin Akintayo
Famed for granting the T.V interview where popular gay rights
activist, Bisi Alimi, became the first Nigerian to publicly come out as
gay, media personality, Funmi Iyanda is at it again.
This time, she helped her friend, Akin Akintayo, 51, come out, through a piece "For Akin" she wrote about him.
Here is an excerpt: "You see, in 2009, Akin had been diagnosed with cancer at the height of his career and life.
He lived in a penthouse by Amsterdam’s beautiful Ijhaven harbor
from where he travelled widely and entertained often. He was an affluent
Eurocentric Anglicized Nigerian, one of those shiny examples of
diaspora success.
He had been HIV positive since 2002. Soon after his cancer
diagnosis, he also developed full-blown AIDS. Without any family in the
Netherlands he spent weeks in hospital and months of chemotherapy on his
own.
He once wrote that his motto through life, cancer and AIDS was to thrive. In his words “I will never live as if I’m dying, l do not intend to start doing that now. I live to live well”.
A year and a half later his cancer had gone into remission and his
HIV viral load fallen to undetectable. His doctors thought it was a
miraculous recovery.
Oh yes, my friend Akin is gay, has been all his life. He didn’t
leave Nigeria because he was gay, he’s middle class, to be poor is the
only real crime, he left because he wanted to become more than was on
offer in 1990.
He left a high paying job and a company he was part owner of to
start over in London then he moved to Amsterdam. He hasn’t been home in
26 years but my meddlesome determination is that he must come home to
visit his family.
We were talking about this on Christmas Day when the news of George Michael’s death broke, suddenly he turned to me and said, "Funmi l want to come out, and I want you to be the one to do this for me, I want people to know I’m gay."
"I have never consciously hidden it but l want to state it now and make it open."
I asked why, he said, its time, l asked if he was sure. He said yes. So
l wrote this story. For my friend Broda Akin, Uncle ilu oyinbo."
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