I offer here a text based on my recent interrogations of the social production of sexualities in
Nigeria. This piece and my other shorter works (Izugbara, 1996, 1997b, 2000a, 2001c …

Researching human sexuality without looking at gender is like cooking pepper soup without
pepper–it might look like pepper soup but one sip will make it clear that an essential …

Across the human societies, the concept of sex and sexual relationship is attached with
some degree of sacredness and in some cases, can be classified as a taboo if some rules …

On the 14th of July 2004, on the occasion of the celebration of the Fortieth Anniversary of the
foundation of the Department of History, University of Lagos, Professor AI Asiwaju, a …

What is the Prize, and who pays the Price? The desired and the desirable are often
constellated through our ideas of what is undesired and undesirable, deeply knotted into our …

Discourses of sexuality in South Africa were central to the creation, support and final
collapse of the apartheid state. Sexuality, unlike other state-regulated social relations that …

Among female youth in Nigeria, especially those living in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital
Territory and its environs, transactional sex is a pervasive sexual culture which is deployed …

This study addresses the problem of sexuality and ideology in relation to (pan)-Africanist
doctrines that have been instrumental in the effort of post-colonial African elites to constitute …

Re-thinking sexualities in Africa Page 1 Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa Edited by Signe
Arnfred Page 2 Page 3 RE-THINKING SEXUALITIES IN AFRICA Edited by Signe Arnfred This …

Recent anthropological interest in sexuality has been closely related to symbolic
constructions of gender in different societies. Most studies explore the cultural constitution of …