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Title: | Sex, citizenship and the state in Nigeria: Islam, Christianity and emergent struggles over intimacy |
Author: | Obadare, Ebenezer![]() |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244) |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 143 |
Pages: | 62-76 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | homosexuality sexuality citizenship State Islam Christianity |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.988699 |
Abstract: | In this article, the author uses the belligerence toward alternative sexualities in Nigeria as a point of departure for a critical appraisal of the terms of inclusion and exclusion in the country's body politic. This belligerence has thrown up a rare alliance of the state, religious leaders and the print media. Attributing this alliance to the postcolonial crisis over the functions of masculinisation and power, the author suggests that anti-gay resentment is a straw man for a ruling elite facing growing socio-economic pressure. This shunting-off of sexual 'others' from the terrain of publicaction has profound implications for the way modern Nigerian citizenship is understood. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |