Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Okporo Edafe
Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Okporo Edafe A "moving...dramatic" (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl), and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a…
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Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Okporo Edafe
A "moving...dramatic" (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl), and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo.On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket to New York City and fled for his life. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years--that he is a gay man.
After navigating Though America had always been painted to him as a land of freedom and opportunity, it was anything but when he arrived just days before the tumultuous 2016 presidential election.Edafe would go on to spend the next six months at an immigration detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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