Indeed, the most high-profile openly gay Africans have been more insulated by wealth and class, such as Bolu Okupe, the son of a Nigerian former presidential aide, and the late Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina. Then they scouted for a subject, eventually going with Asilikwa because “the majority of the people who’ve come out from Kenya are middle class and from wealthy families that buys you security”. Peter Murimi, the director of I Am Samuel, in central London.
