ABSTRACT
The African queer body is largely framed as a problematic and undisciplined body that defies African hetero-patriarchal ideals of being and embodiment. In countries like Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Malawi; the media has been used as a tool for sustaining and reinforcing an anti-queer agenda. South Africa can be considered to be the only African country that has opened up its mainstream mediascape to queer bodies and narratives. Queer narratives are often controlled and policed by the state to shape a discourse that is favorable to it and its imagining of the nation. In Zimbabwe specifically, the master narrative has been that queer bodies cannot be Zimbabwean. Decoloniality within which Ndlovu-Gatsheni frames dismemberment is a critical paradigm in understanding the experiences of queer people in Zimbabwe.
