Of Gay Struggle and Resistance in Africa: Contesting Queer Politics in Kenya and Uganda

Geoffrey Masinde Wanyonyi and Babere Kerata Chacha
Additional contact information
Geoffrey Masinde Wanyonyi: Kyambogo University, Uganda
Babere Kerata Chacha: Laikipia University, Kenya

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024, vol. 11, issue 11, 334-349

Abstract: End of cold war in Africa and the widening of freedom of media, press, rise of international and local NGOs, increasingly sophiscated tourism industry, widespread use of the internet and social media as well as trade liberalisation has produced a globalisation in Africa which in turn has accelerated internationalisation of the sexual rights and identities, resuscitated women’s movement, and increased demands for basic equality, and above all escalated new sexual orientation in many urban areas of Africa. Interestingly, in tune to these changes, the African urban youth have in turn deployed music and clothing styles in order to form new subcultural youth identities which are seen as acts of resistance against a dominant culture. Today, sexual relationships are being socially constructed as an appropriate expression of intimacy, but also as a statement about a particular kind of modern identity. In this paper, we intend to view globalisation as one of the most powerful forces shaping the modern world and a key idea explaining the transition of the human society into the third millennium. People consider globalisation a tidal wave sweeping over the world. Consequently, today one can talk differently on what it means to be male and female in modern African contexts; because there are different ways in which sexualities have been constructed, performed, resisted, transformed and transgressed; thereby producing tensions between traditions and modernities.

Date: 2024
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/d ... issue-11/334-349.pdf (application/pdf)
https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/artic ... in-kenya-and-uganda/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bjc:journl:v:11:y:2024:i:11:p:334-349

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation is currently edited by Dr. Renu Malsaria

More articles in International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation from International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr. Renu Malsaria ().