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Title:'Nigeria Can Do without Such Perverts': Sexual Anxiety and Political Crisis in Postcolonial Nigeria
Author:Pierce, StevenISNI
Year:2016
Periodical:Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (ISSN 1548-226X)
Volume:36
Issue:1
Pages:3-20
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:homosexuality
culture
politics
religion
violence
External link:https://muse.jhu.edu/article/615048
Abstract:Recent political homophobia in Nigeria, including vigilante violence and repressive legislation, is often imagined to be a reaction to outside forces: religious movements like evangelical Christianity and reform-ist Islam or the spread of Western homosexual identities. This article suggests this is unlikely and that understanding recent patterns of homophobia requires understanding local cultures of same-sex practice and the anxieties underlying political attempts to regulate sexuality. The article also makes some preliminary suggestions for how such an account might be attempted by looking at long-standing contradictions in systems for evaluating sexual morality in northern Nigeria and how those might help inform recent discussions of sexual immorality.
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