Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Framing the Debates
7. Human Rights Challenge in Africa: Sexual Minority Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 19
8. No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference 37
9. The Making of “African Sexuality”: Early Sources, Current Debates 54
10. Rhetorical Analysis of President Jammeh’s Threats to Behead Homosexuals in the Gambia 67
11. South Africa
12. Military Mutilation: The Aversion Program in the South African Defence Force in the Apartheid Era 91
13. Constructing the “Ex-Gay” Subject: Cultural Convergences in Post-Apartheid South Africa 109
14. The (Mis)Treatment of South African Track Star Caster Semenya 129
15. Comparative Studies
16. Mobilizing against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media, and the “Paranoid Style” in Cameroon 151
17. “The One Who First Says I Love You”: Love, Seniority, and Relational Gender in Postcolonial Ghana 170
18. LGBTI Community and Citizenship Practices in Urban Ghana 188
19. Male Homosexuality in Bamako: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Historical Comparative Perspective 208
20. The Politics of Sexual Diversity: An Afterword 225
21. Contributors 229
22. Notes 231
23. Works Cited 247
24. Index 285