ABSTRACT
In the 2010s, the repeated incarceration of people arrested for same-sex relations,2 sometimes carried out in parallel with controversies fuelled, for example, by the publication of ‘lists of gay people “in the media”’ has prompted activists to take up the issue, placing it on a national as well as an international political agenda for decriminalisation. To date, research in Africa has focused more on the second situation. It highlights how sexuality is a value negotiated in prison, for the purpose of subjugating the other and acquiring status for self-protection. The first bulwark of a homosexual child is his mother, his family. I saw the distress, the suffering: more than being imprisoned, it was being abandoned by their mothers that ravaged.
