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Introduction to ‘African Sexualities: A Reader’
\nSylvia Tamale
\n2011-05-11, Issue 529<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018African Sexualities\u2019 is a groundbreaking new volume, forthcoming from Pambazuka Press. As well as using popular culture to help address the \u2018what, why, how, when and where\u2019 questions, the book\u2019s contributors provide a critical mapping of African sexualities that informs readers about the plurality and complexities of sexualities on the continent \u2013 desires, practices, fantasies, identities, taboos, abuses, violations, stigmas, transgressions and sanctions. At the same time, the contributors pose gender-sensitive and politically aware questions that challenge the reader to interrogate assumptions and hegemonic sexuality discourses, thereby unmapping the intricate and complex terrain of African sexualities.<\/p>\n

The following article by \u2018African Sexualities\u2019 editor Sylvia Tamale comprises the book\u2019s introduction.<\/em><\/p>\n

If Sexuality were a human being and she made a grand entrance (l\u2019entr\u00e9e grande) into the African Union conference centre, the honourable delegates would stand up and bow in honour. But the acknowledgement of and respect for Sexuality would no doubt be tinged with overtones of parody and irony, even sadness, because although Sexuality might represent notions of pleasure and the continuity of humanity itself, the term conjures up discussions about sources of oppression and violence. In fact, once Sexuality got to the podium and opened her mouth, the multiple complexities associated with her presence would echo around the conference room.<\/p>\n

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