Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier

By Ashley Currier African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability

By Lisa Wynn African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Sexual Violence

Set in transnational Cairo over a two-decade period, this book is an ethnography about love and desire.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman African Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sexuality, Secrecy, and Local Government in Early Twentieth-Century Edendale, South Africa

By Marc Epprecht African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Class shame hinging upon perceived sexual immorality is an often overlooked element of anti-colonial/apartheid politics in South Africa.

Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border

By Shane Doyle African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS

Is it helpful to conceive of one African epidemic, with one set of universal causes? And how is the history of HIV understood within African communities?

From Child Pledging to Child Abuse: How Girl Marriage Changed in Zimbabwe

By Diana Jeater African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Attempts to ban child marriage in Southern Rhodesia reflected the Europeans’ tendency to perceive African male sexuality as excessive.

Abortion Under Apartheid

By Nicole Bourbonnais African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

During apartheid (1948-1990), abortion was often used as a political tool.