Adrian Jjuuko, Siri Gloppen, Alan Msosa and Frans Viljoen eds. (2022)
The book “Queer Lawfare in Africa: Legal Strategies in Contexts of LGBTIQ+ Criminalisation and Politicisation” is out. Edited by Adrian Jjuuko, Siri Gloppen, Alan Msosa and Frans Viljoen, it 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.
Excerpt from the introductory chapter (Gloppen, Jjuuko, Viljoen, Msosa 2022)
This volume examines queer lawfare processes as they have played out over the past decades in 13 African countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, The Gambia, Uganda, and Zambia. In doing so, we asked five interlinked questions: How does queer lawfare differ across the African continent? What drives and shapes this phenomenon in its diversity? What is the relationship between pro-queer lawfare and the anti-gay politicisation prevailing on the continent? What are the consequences of lawfare for LGBTIQ+ groups – legally, politically, socially, and regarding health and wellbeing? And under which conditions are lawfare strategies most likely to produce beneficial outcomes for queer communities?
OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS
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)
You can download the whole book or specific chapters at the PULP website:
https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/edited-collections/queer-lawfare-in-africa-legal-strategies-in-contexts-of-lgbtiq-criminalisation-and-politicisation