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Africa: They Can't Stop the Dance - the Trouble With Limiting African Pleasures
This is Africa, 12 June 2018
The different expressions of pleasure through the African body in colonial and post colonial Africa have been strongly regulated and silenced. Before the disruption that was… Read more »
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Kenya: Nationalising Sex, Dictating Sex - Womxn's Pleasure (Or Not) in Kenya's Public Imaginary
This is Africa, 11 June 2018
It is election year and 'tis the season to hyper-weaponise everything - the police, food prices and availability, polling stations, the media, booze, ID documents, the judiciary,… Read more »
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Africa: The Limits of Imagining Pleasure - Writing the History of African Sex
This is Africa, 8 June 2018
Is kissing unAfrican? Is foreplay unAfrican? These questions speak to ideas which view certain aspects of pleasure and sexuality as foreign. Through fiction, Rafeeat Aliyu says… Read more »
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Ghana: Learning to Love Without Ownership - Journal of an African Bisexual Woman
This is Africa, 11 June 2018
What does being a non-monogamous, bisexual woman living in Ghana mean? How do I live out my love life? Nana Akosua Hanson honestly shares her experiences in this philosophical… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Sex Lives of Northern Nigeria
This is Africa, 8 June 2018
The case of pleasure and sex in Northern Nigeria is not a matter of forced conservatism or a robotic followership to a certain doctrine. It is an in-built self-censorship… Read more »