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dc.contributor.authorNyanzi, Stella
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-09T07:01:07Z
dc.date.available2014-12-09T07:01:07Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationNyanzi, S. (2013). Dismantling reified African culture through localised homosexualities in Uganda. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 15(8) 952-967.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/4096
dc.description.abstractUganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 aimed at protecting the cherished culture of the people against emergent threats to the traditional heterosexual family. The Bill's justification, however, lay in myopic imaginings of a homogenous African-ness and pedestrian oblivion to pluralities within African sexualities. This paper revisits the debate that homosexuality is ‘un-African’. Rhetoric analysis of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill exposes how dominant discourses of law, medicine, religion, geography and culture reinforce the view that homosexuality is foreign to Africa. Based on ethnography in contemporary Uganda, I explore how self-identified same-sex-loving individuals simultaneously claim their African-ness and their homosexuality. Their strategies include ethnic belonging, membership to kinship structures, making connections with pre-colonial histories of homosexuality, civic participation in democratic processes, national identity, organising of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning support groups, language and nomenclature, visibility and voice in local communal activities, solidarity and adherence to cultural rituals. In present-day Uganda, same-sex-loving men, women and transgender people variously assert their African-ness.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Swedish International Development and Corporation Agency (SIDA)'s Special Initiative for Democratisation and Freedom of Expression Grant No. 5403011901.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectHomosexualityen_US
dc.subjectAnti-Homosexuality Billen_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.subjectAfricannessen_US
dc.subjectHomophobiaen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectLGBT rightsen_US
dc.titleDismantling reified African culture through localised homosexualities in Uganda.en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US


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