Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation
Edited by Adrian Jjuuko, Siri Gloppen, Alan Msosa and Frans Viljoen
2022
ISBN: 978-1-7764116-8-9
Pages: 452
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available
About the publication
This book focuses on the strategies that activists for LGBTIQ+ equality in Africa deploy to challenge deep seated homophobia and transphobia, as well as the politicisation of LGBTIQ+ issues. It is a peer-reviewed, edited volume with scholarly contributions from lawyers, anthropologists, and LGBTIQ+ activists. It covers different country situations – those where equality is taking root, as the case is in South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique; those where homophobia reigns and LGBTIQ+ rights are politicised such as, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia; and those where traditional LGBTIQ+ activism is almost a nonstarter, such as in Ethiopia, Sudan and The Gambia.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
Queer lawfare in Africa: Introduction and theoretical framework
Siri Gloppen, Adrian Jjuuko, Frans Viljoen & Alan Msosa
PART I: LAWFARE IN THE CONTEXT OF LIBERALISATION AND PROTECTION OF THE SEXUAL RIGHTS OF LGBT PEOPLE IN AFRICA
Chapter 1
War by other means: The law and politics of sexual minority freedom in post-apartheid South Africa
Jaco Barnard-Naudé & Pierre de Vos
Chapter 2
Progressive legislation in the context of generalised conservative public opinion: The case of LGBT rights in Mozambique
Carmeliza Rosário & Camila Gianella
Chapter 3
Queer lawfare in Botswana
Monica Tabengwa & Anthony Oluoch
PART II: LAWFARE IN THE CONTEXT OF ACTIVE POLITICISATION
Chapter 4
Queer lawfare in Kenya: Shifting opportunities for rights realisation
Nicholas Wasonga Orago, Siri Gloppen & Matthew Gichohi
Chapter 5
Court focused lawfare over LGBT rights: The case of Uganda
Adrian Jjuuko & Stella Nyanzi
Chapter 6
LGBT+ rights lawfare in Malawi
Alan Msosa & Chrispine Gwalawala Sibande
Chapter 7
Against ‘the order of nature’: Towards the growth of queer lawfare in Nigeria
Ayodele Sogunro
PART III: LAWFARE IN THE CONTEXT OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL NATIONALISM
Chapter 8
LGBT lawfare in response to heterosexual nationalism and the retention of the anti-sodomy laws in Zambia
Landilani Banda
Chapter 9
LGBTQI+ lawfare in response to the politicisation of homosexuality in Ghana
Ernest Yaw Ako & Amanda Odoi
Chapter 10
Senegal: Mobilising for gay rights in the shadow of HIV/AIDS
Vegard Vibe
Chapter 11
From a ‘crusade to root out homosexuality like malaria’ to a ‘non-issue’: The absence of sexual minority lawfare in The Gambia
Satang Nabaneh
Chapter 12
Digital lawfare and activism by lesbian, gay and bisexual persons in Ethiopia
Getnet Tadele & Woldekidan Amde
Chapter 13
Activism from the closet: Fear of a double backlash against a nascent queer movement in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen, Samia al-Nagar & Samah Khalaf Allah
Conclusion
The kaleidoscope of queer lawfare in Africa
Adrian Jjuuko, Frans Viljoen, Siri Gloppen & Alan Msosa