ABSTRACT
This chapter explores an ethnographic examination of queer self-fashioning in neoliberal Ghana, and in what ways self-identified effeminate men, who currently inhabit the nexus of lesbian, gay, bisexual, Trans, intersex, and queer human rights politics and ideas, and a nation-state that polices sexual citizenship self-fashion, disrupt monolithic assumptions about sexuality. Gyekye asserts that the Akan people of Ghana construct personhood “amphibiously,” unsettling Eurocentric dichotomies such as African communalism versus European individualism. Sassoi sartorial undertones highlight how space, event, and time inform their modes of self-fashioning. They also amplify the contingencies defining how the space of the ritual, which is a site that arguable conditions heteronormativity, entwines with non-heteronormative subject formation. Sasso remains a contested category that challenges the idea that Ghana is a heterosexual nation. It is also a community of men bonded by effeminate identification and homoerotic intimacy and desire.
