Ani Kayode Somtochukwu is a Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist. His work interrogates themes of African queer identity, resistance, and liberation and has been shortlisted for the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award, the Toyin Falola Prize, the Afritondo Short Story Prize, and the Hope Prize. His 2023 novel, And Then He Sang a Lullaby, was a finalist for the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for Prose Fiction and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction. It also won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was Gold winner for the 2023 INDIES Book of The Year Award (Literary Fiction).

Ani co-convened the 2020 End Homophobia in Nigeria campaign and founded the Queer Union for Economic and Social Transformation (QUEST9ja), a pan-Africanist queer activist collective organising towards queer liberation in Nigeria.​ He is the National Coordinator of the Socialist Youth League.