ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that since sexual politics easily traverse state boundaries, Africa's politicisation of sexuality should be understood from the perspective of globalisation on one hand, and Africa's socio-political and religious realities on the other hand. The politicisation of sexuality expressed especially in politically and religiously sanctioned homophobia in sub-Saharan Africa is a multi-faceted phenomenon that invites an interdisciplinary approach. The chapter explores how homosexuality feeds into neo-colonial politics. The religiously and politically sanctioned opposition to homosexuality and the partnership between global and local sexual right groups have intensified the battle for political space in Africa. As a result, Post-colonial nations are witnessing the emergence of sex-based social movements whose political rhetoric and tactics seemed to mimic or reproduce Euro-American forms of sexual identity, s.
