This article examines She Called Me Woman, a 2018 anthology of and by twenty-five queer Nigerian women. The text focuses on a variety of narratives by women as a way to challenge the confinement of queer Nigeria to the narratives of gay men. The article demonstrates how the multifarious queer(ying) experiences of women in different geographical and social contexts within Nigeria help to further contextualize the trope of what we understand to be queer in Africa. The stories in this anthology reflect the complex ways in which queer women in Nigeria negotiate their everyday lives against the backdrop of the frontier imposed by both anti-homosexuality law in Nigeria and global LGBT+ discourse. In examining the complexities of these women, this article argues that queer frontiers in Africa must necessarily be discussed elliptically, as a compendium of the known, the unknown, and perhaps the unknowable. The idea of queerness is taken up as a frontier of thought, imagination and modes of being: that is, an embodiment of identities at the crossroads of a complex convergence of the old, the new and the yet to be known.

本文探讨了她叫我女人，一部由25名酷儿尼日利亚女性撰写的2018年选集。案文侧重于妇女的各种叙事，以此来挑战将酷儿尼日利亚限制为同性恋者的叙事。这篇文章说明了尼日利亚境内不同地理和社会背景下的女性多变的酷儿经历如何有助于进一步将我们理解为非洲酷儿的说法归于一处。这本选集中的故事反映了尼日利亚同志妇女在尼日利亚反同性恋法律和全球LGBT +话语所施加的边界背景下，如何通过复杂的方式来谈判自己的日常生活。在审查这些妇女的复杂性时，本文认为，作为已知，未知，也许是不可知的。奇怪的思想被认为是思想，想象力和存在方式的前沿：也就是说，身份在旧的，新的和尚不为人所知的复杂融合的十字路口的体现。