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