Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a response to the pressing need to rethink feminisms, masculinity studies, and queer studies in an increasingly globalised world. It offers accessible analyses of an emerging diversity of non-heterosexualities and gender diversity in contemporary Africa, set within a variety of critical conceptual and methodological frameworks. The book focuses on Nigeria and Swaziland provide rich, in-depth accounts of some of the intersections between gender, sexuality, faith and traditionalism, and activism and human rights in those countries. It seeks to contribute to the development of international studies concerning non-heterosexual, queer, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer identities, politics, theories, and gender and sexuality studies more broadly. The book addresses both human-human relations and human-non-human relations. It also provides a queer bisexual reading of the film Karmen Gei.