ABSTRACT
The assemblage of scholarship contained under the umbrella of queer African studies offers methodology that destabilizes sexuality, gender, and identity as analytic categories. In sum, queer African studies sets out a methodology of “queering” that deconstructs hegemonic categories such as “African sexuality” while recognizing that deconstruction as a research and analytical approach can fail to capture aspects of the study of queer African realities. African queer methodology insists on the embeddedness of local histories in transnational narratives, not only of the subject at hand, but also of the researcher. In addition to a methodological approach that employs deconstruction while recognizing its limits and adopts postcolonial stance to understand how knowledge on African sexuality has been produced, queer African studies situates analysis in transnational context to better understand interplay of transnational and local forces shaping sexualities and genders African societies.
