Homosexuality in Precolonial Africa
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After Idi Amin and Joseph Kony, the Anti-Homosexuality Act in 2013 made Uganda internationally notorious again. Lire la suite
Yet Uganda is the home of one of Africa's rare notorious homosexual figures, King (Kabaka) Mwanga (1884–99). Studying sexuality can be challenging across the world but the scarcity of written sources and the selective and censored memory of oral sources make it even more challenging on Africa. However, the Kingdom of Buganda (today part of Uganda) in the late 19th century offers an exceptionally well documented case study with detailed African and European sources. In 1886, Christians were persecuted and executed by order of King Mwanga. They were latter canonised and made into Saints by the Catholic Church. Sources on this event provide an extraordinary wealth of information on men that have sex with men. This collection of unusual historical sources provides a unique opportunity to understand homosexuality as an African phenomenon. This work aims to shed light on Buganda in the late 19th century, unpacking the ways in which the understanding of men who have sex with men changed during the last decades of the 19th century and how homophobia was then politicised. Homosexuality provides a lens for key aspects of political relationships in Buganda during this period, which saw a Christian oligarchy and the British colonial rulers establish a new order on the ruins of an African kingdom shaken by an ideological crisis.
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- Éditeur
- Africae
- Auteur
- Henri Médard,
- Collection
- Monographs
- Langue
- anglais
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Philosophie, lettres, linguistique et histoire > Histoire
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Religion et morale
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences économiques et sociales
- BISAC Subject Heading
- HIS000000 HISTORY > REF000000 REFERENCE > SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE
- BIC subject category (UK)
- H Humanities > G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects > J Society & social sciences
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019 )
- 3377 HISTOIRE > 3801 OUVRAGES DE DOCUMENTATION > 3080 SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES
- Date de première publication du titre
- 01 juillet 2026
- Type d'ouvrage
- Monographie
Livre broché
- Details de produit
- 1
- Date de publication
- 01 juillet 2026
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-493207-40-1
- Ampleur
- Nombre absolu de pages : 208
- Code interne
- 110529
- Format
- 15 x 23 cm
- Prix
- 18,50 €
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- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Sommaire
Acknowledgements
Foreword: How to Read this Book
Notes on Ganda Titles Used in the Text
List of the Main Historical Characters in the Text
Map of the Kingdom of Buganda
Introduction
The rise of a militant scientific literature turned towards the present, struggling to understand the African past
Underused and unique sources on same sex intimacies in Buganda
Putting words on sexual intimacies in Buganda: an impossible dilemma full of traps and contradictions
Buganda Kingdom in the late 19th century
The return of debates over homosexuality in contemporary Uganda
Outline of the work
Chapter 1. Old Customs and New Zanzibari Understanding
Same-sex intimacies embedded in sacred kingship
The myth of the Arab origin of "sodomy"
Slaves and pages: same-sex intimacies in the royal capital of Buganda
Conclusion
Chapter 2. The New Christian Sin of “Sodomy” (1879–1888)
Cyprien Mutagwanya, a reluctant royal lover (1882)
The Uganda Martyrs, “sodomy” and subversion
A Catholic king's cumbersome passion for boys and hemp (1888–1892)
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Neutralising King Mwanga’s Power (1892–1899) and the Politics of Homophobia
Keeping a reluctant and sinful king Anglican
The politics of the first Ganda anti-sodomy law (1896)
Homophobia?
Conclusion
General Conclusion
Annexes
Annex 1. Uganda Martyrs
(List of Witnesses)
Annex 2. Notes on the Cover Illustratio
“Mwanga; Kabaka of Uganda; 1893”
Annex 3. Relunctant Lovers, Mwanga Grows to Hate Christians
(Stanislas Mugwanya, Mathieu Lubowa Kirevu, Joseph Nsingisira and Aleni Nganda)
Annex 4. Mwanga’s Religious and Sexual Ambivalence
(Rubaga Diary)
Annex 5. November 1893–January 1894: Mwanga An
Unwilling Protestant (White Fathers)
Annex 6. Three Versions of Mwanga’s Aborted Return to Catholicism
White Fathers, Gibbs and Miti (23 July–2 August 1894)
Annex 7. Apolo Kagwa: The Anti-Sodomy Law of December 1896
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