Le sexe et ses doubles

Over the past two decades, the issue of sexual orientation and gender identity has become a topic of public debate in many African countries. In connection with the rise of anti-homosexual violence in the 2000s, social science research has tried to show that, suddenly homophobic, Africa, had long been a place of tolerance for sexual diversity, on condition that it remained private.

In this context, based on a double ethnographic survey in Cameroon and France, Patrick Awondo analyses the emergence of homosexuality as a political subject and its expression in the trajectories of African "sexual migrants" in France.

This book proposes an ethnographic treatment of the unprecedented birth of homosexual activism in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa and the construction of homosexuality as a public issue in a more general context of the ensauvagement of African societies.