Conclusion: Queering Queer Africa?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introducing Amphibious Subjects 1
5. Part One Setting the Scenes
6. 1. Situating Sasso: Mapping Effeminate Subjectivities and Homoerotic Desire in Postcolonial Ghana 23
7. 2. Contesting Homogeneity: Sasso Complexity in the Face of Neoliberal LGBT+ Politics 49
8. Part Two Amphibious Subjects in Rival Geographies
9. 3. Amphibious Subjectivity: Queer Self-Making at the Intersection of Colliding Modernities in Neoliberal Ghana 75
10. 4. The Paradox of Rituals: Queer Possibilities in Heteronormative Scenes 102
11. Part Three. Becoming and Unbecoming Amphibious Subjects in Hetero/Homo Colonial Vortices
12. 5. Palimpsestic Projects: Heterocolonial Missions in Post-Independent Ghana (1965–1975) 121
13. 6. Queer Liberal Expeditions: The BBC’s The World’s Worst Place to Be Gay? and the Paradoxes of Homocolonialism 143
14. Conclusion: Queering Queer Africa? 163
15. Notes 171
16. Bibliography 183
17. Index 195