ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes sexual desire between women in contemporary African writing as an expression of the disappointment with the African postcolonial nation and its heteropatriarchal systems of oppression. By proposing the African woman’s right to self-determination outside of heteronormative identities, and drawing a direct relationship between women’s sexual pleasure, freedom, power, and agency, it chronicles a radical epistemic shift in the formation of African female subjectivity. In its insistence that women’s bodies are meaningful in themselves, it imagines a social change toward respect for otherness and the recognition of individual human rights.
