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Periodical article |
Title: | 'Nigeria Can Do without Such Perverts': Sexual Anxiety and Political Crisis in Postcolonial Nigeria |
Author: | Pierce, Steven |
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. |