ABSTRACT
One of the most revolutionary outcomes of attempts to address AIDS in Africa has been the objectification of sexuality through 'breaking silences' and critically addressing sexual practice. In a workshop with rural women in Tanzania in 1996, Research was carried out between 1994 and 2000 as part of the Gender and AIDS Project funded by the ESRC (UK) and jointly coordinated by Janet Bujra and Carolyn Baylies, working with a team of African scholars and activists. AIDS in Africa has put power relations at all levels in question because it interrupts the assumption of control over female sexuality on which men have always built their dominance. Despite the way in which sexuality is bound up with the micro and macro politics of gender, AIDS has forced men and women in Africa to imagine a wholly different mode of sexual relations.
