ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the literature on masculinities and interpersonal violence, with a specific focus on work emerging from Africa. We argue that a critical, decolonial feminist review allows for a gendered, intersectional reading that has reach across geopolitical contexts. We find three emerging discourses in the work that relate to historical traumas and colonial patriarchy, masculinities and neoliberalism and the transformation of masculinities. In this chapter we show how, in times that may be considered ‘post’ colonial, representations of black and African men, black families and black communities continue to be racialised and resonate strongly with colonial tropes on Africa and African people.
