The Indigenous Concept of Sexuality in African Tradition and Globalization

Okafor Samuel Okechi
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Okafor Samuel Okechi: Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nigeria

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 2018, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-5

Abstract: Across the human societies, the concept of sex and sexual relationship is attached with some degree of sacredness and in some cases, can be classified as a taboo if some rules guiding such activity is ignored or violated. African societies in particular, at various degrees, have an understanding of sexual relationship as a sacrosanct factor to the image of a group, and a respectable phenomenon which every member of the group must adhere to the rules guiding them. However, the era of culture contact has left an indelible mark on the understanding and perception of sexual relationship among the African societies. This paper analyses the trends in the perception of sex and sexual relationship among the African societies, in the face of cultural globalization using, the available Ethnographic literatures and other emerging issues. Though the wave of cultural globalization is so enormous to have sunk the ships of most African Traditional Cultures, the paper suggested a common ground for the accommodation of the concept of sex and sexual relationship between the African Traditional Culture and the emerging global culture.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/GJORM.2018.06.555676

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