A gay Nigerian professor based in the United States, Uju Anya, has slammed African men who attack her for being gay.
According to Dr Anya, many of those same men slamming her are married to gay women who can’t publicly reveal their orientations because they’re in Africa.
The LGBTQ activist said many of the women sending her direct messages to reveal they are closeted lesbians are married women.
She added that the reason these women stay in these marriages is that “society gave them no choice.”
She then told the men that if they continue to criticise homos*xuality and say it is “not African“, they build societies where the men end up married to closeted lesbians without knowing it.
Check out her tweets below…
“These men who attack me for being gay, saying it’s not part of African culture, lemme tell you 3 things: 1. Your wives lying in bed next to you in Africa enter my DMs EVERY DAY saying they’re gay and trapped in marriage with you, because family and society gave them no choice.
“2. Your African wives say they (and many others they know like them especially in Port Harcourt, Lagos, Nairobi) don’t miss a thing I say on Twitter, but can’t openly follow me or like my tweets, because you their African husbands follow me, and they’re afraid you’ll see them.
“3. When I do matchmaking threads, gay women married to African men are the LARGEST group asking for anonymous posts not to identify themselves publicly. They even beg me to create threads just for them to find each other. **2nd largest group is married men seeking side chicks.
“When I tell homophobic African men their wife is in my DMs, I’m not joking. I hear from enough African wives *DAILY* to know y’all should stop this “homosexuality is not African” BS and build societies where your own hatred and violence don’t force you to live in lies and misery.
“When I tell homophobic African men their wife is in my DMs, I’m not joking. I hear from enough African wives *DAILY* to know y’all should stop this “homosexuality is not African” BS and build societies where your own hatred and violence don’t force you to live in lies and misery.
“A reminder to anyone who steps to me with hatred and insults. My block finger is as liberal as my views. And I also regularly run block parties, so I will remove you and all your burner accounts from my life.
“To all the men here vomiting your violent hate and homophobia all over the comments. Maybe don’t try so hard to show the world exactly why your wives are in my DMs?”
Who is Uju Anya?
Dr. Uju Anya teaches and conducts research in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University as associate professor of second language acquisition.
Her primary fields of inquiry are critical applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies examining race, gender, sexual, and social class identities in new language learning through the experiences of African American students.
She has expertise in diversity, equity, and inclusion in instructional practices and curriculum design, applied linguistics as a practice of social justice, intercultural communication, as well as service-learning and civic engagement in secondary and university-level language programs.
Dr. Anya’s book Racialized identities in second language learning: Speaking blackness in Brazil (Routledge 2017) won the 2019 American Association for Applied Linguistics First Book Award recognizing a scholar whose first book represents outstanding work that makes an exceptional contribution to the field.
The book is the first single-authored volume of sociolinguistic analysis and critical examination of the African American experience in language learning. It examines how students shape and negotiate different identities in multilingual contexts, and it proposes how a multilingual approach (e.g. translanguaging, plurilingual practice) can be utilized for effective language pedagogy.
Her second book, a co-edited volume titled Racial equity on college campuses: Connecting research to practice, is due to be released by SUNY Press at the end of 2021.
Previously, Dr. Anya was assistant professor of second language learning in Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State University, assistant professor of teacher education in TESOL at the University of Southern California; visiting assistant professor and faculty director of the Dartmouth College Portuguese language study abroad program in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil; and lecturer in applied linguistics, TESOL, Portuguese, and Spanish at UCLA and Dartmouth College.
She holds a PhD in applied linguistics from UCLA, an MA in Brazilian studies from Brown University, and a BA in Romance languages from Dartmouth College.
Uju Anya Queen
Uju Anya sparked massive controversy prior to the death of British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, after she fell ill.
The controversy around the 46-year-old educator and activist began when in response to news that doctors were “concerned” about the Queen’s health, she tweeted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”
Hours later, it was announced that Britain’s longest-serving monarch had died at age 96 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Anya’s tweet was later removed for violating the social media platform’s rules, but she followed up with another one, writing: “if anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.”
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos slamme Uju Anya over the comments, writing: “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
Source: Nigeriabombshell.com
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