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Trending: Nigeria’s Secret Transgender Groups

Nigeria’s Secret Transgender Groups

18/03/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Trending, Nigeria’s Secret Transgender Groups

Nigeria’s transgender community speak to us about secret online groups

We look at the secret digital life of Nigeria’s transgender community after writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s comments on transgender women sparked widespread debate.

After comments by writer and author Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche divided opinion, we speak to members of some of Nigeria’s secret gay and transgender on groups who rely on each other on social media for support. They communicate with each other in private and closed ambiguously named WhatsApp and Facebook groups. 
Joey Daley from Ohio has documented his mother Molly’s dementia. One film in which she failed to recognise him for the first time was viewed nearly 2 million times. Joey speaks to BBC Trending about how it feels to care for someone with dementia.

Presenter: Mike Wendling
Producer: Anisa Subedar

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