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Late popular Nigerian transgender model, Fola Francis
Popular Nigerian transgender model, Fola Francis is dead.
The fashion designer and LGBT activist will not be around to celebrate this year's Christmas, having drowned five days earlier on December 20, 2023, at IIashe beach in Lagos.
The news of his demise was announced by a freelance journalist, Vincent Desmond, in a statement on his social media page on Friday.
He said: “Fola Francis was a beacon of hope and a light to us and a lot of other people. We are deeply hurt by her passing.
“There will be a memorial which will be discussed at a later date, as we her friends and family ask for privacy at this time,”
Desmond did not provide details of how Francis drowned.
It would be recalled that Fola was the first Nigerian transgender to walk the Lagos Fashion Week for Cute-Saint and Fruché. (Adapted from a report by New Telegraph)
