Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2014) and Between Rites and Rights (2007; 2016). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text.Chris Dunton has worked at universities in Nigeria, Libya and South Africa, and was most recently Professor and Dean of Humanities at the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho. He is the author of e.g. Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Theatre in English since 1970 (1992); (with Mai Palmberg) Human Rights and Homosexuality (1996); Nigerian Theatre in English (1998). Dunton was the first Anglophone scholar to publish work on homosexualities in African literature.

From a “post-queer” perspective, this interdisciplinary collection makes an invaluable contribution to LGBTQI African studies through a wide variety of thematic and theoretical approaches. Offering broad coverage of the continent and its languages, its chapters work through the multiple meanings contained in and promised the Trans in its title.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChantal Zabus and Chris Dunton CASE-STUDIES I.Islamic Africa1.Powers of resistance and the Lexicon of Post-Queer Sexuality in Muhammad Abdelnabi’s In the Spider’s Room Omar Boukhatem, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France2.Visualising Transgender Morocco: Daoud Aoulad-Syad’s Bye-Bye Souirty (Adieu Forain) Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh, USA3.Diasporic Trans/Forming in Diriye Osman’s The Butterfly Jungle, Afdhere Jama’s Being Queer and Somali, Tofik Dibi’s Djinn, and Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues John C. Hawley, University of Santa Clara, USAII.West Africa4.‘Dare Speak Their Name’: The Poetry of Logan FebruaryChris Dunton, formerly of National University of Lesotho 5.‘Deliver us from Evil’: Pentecostal Christianity, Queer Sexualities and the Language of Deliverance in Nigerian Literature Adriaan Van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK, and Belinda Makinana, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa6.Non)Genealogical Radical Queerness: On A Schizophrenic Reading of Frieda Ekotto’s Chuchote pas tropNaminata Diabate, Cornell University, USA III.Southern Africa7. Translects: Post-Queering Transgender in South African and Nigerian AutofictionsChantal Zabus, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France8.‘The Sarimbavy of Madagascar: Beyond Semantic Boundaries and the Politics of (In)visibilisationAlyette Rajaofera Andriamasinalivao, University of Paris-Diderot, France & Université d’ Antananarivo, Madagascar9.The Eco-Queer Tree of South African ConstitutionalismFrancois Lion-Cachet, University of Cape Town, South AfricaTESTIMONIES 10.1995, Reading the Signs of the time Philippe-Joseph Salazar, University of Cape Town, South Africa11.‘Transafrica: Joan Hambidge to Chantal Zabus Joan Hambidge, University of Cape Town, South Africa12.Ó: An Essay on Pronouns and Power Among the YorùbáLogan February, Purdue University, USA13.‘After Queer, After Decriminalization: Botswana: John McAllister and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile in Conversation’John McAllister, formerly of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2014) and Between Rites and Rights (2007; 2016). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text.Chris Dunton has worked at universities in Nigeria, Libya and South Africa, and was most recently Professor and Dean of Humanities at the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho. He is the author of e.g. Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Theatre in English since 1970 (1992); (with Mai Palmberg) Human Rights and Homosexuality (1996); Nigerian Theatre in English (1998). Dunton was the first Anglophone scholar to publish work on homosexualities in African literature.

From a “post-queer” perspective, this interdisciplinary collection makes an invaluable contribution to LGBTQI African studies through a wide variety of thematic and theoretical approaches. Offering broad coverage of the continent and its languages, its chapters work through the multiple meanings contained in and promised the Trans in its title.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChantal Zabus and Chris Dunton CASE-STUDIES I.Islamic Africa1.Powers of resistance and the Lexicon of Post-Queer Sexuality in Muhammad Abdelnabi’s In the Spider’s Room Omar Boukhatem, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France2.Visualising Transgender Morocco: Daoud Aoulad-Syad’s Bye-Bye Souirty (Adieu Forain) Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh, USA3.Diasporic Trans/Forming in Diriye Osman’s The Butterfly Jungle, Afdhere Jama’s Being Queer and Somali, Tofik Dibi’s Djinn, and Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues John C. Hawley, University of Santa Clara, USAII.West Africa4.‘Dare Speak Their Name’: The Poetry of Logan FebruaryChris Dunton, formerly of National University of Lesotho 5.‘Deliver us from Evil’: Pentecostal Christianity, Queer Sexualities and the Language of Deliverance in Nigerian Literature Adriaan Van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK, and Belinda Makinana, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa6.Non)Genealogical Radical Queerness: On A Schizophrenic Reading of Frieda Ekotto’s Chuchote pas tropNaminata Diabate, Cornell University, USA III.Southern Africa7. Translects: Post-Queering Transgender in South African and Nigerian AutofictionsChantal Zabus, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France8.‘The Sarimbavy of Madagascar: Beyond Semantic Boundaries and the Politics of (In)visibilisationAlyette Rajaofera Andriamasinalivao, University of Paris-Diderot, France & Université d’ Antananarivo, Madagascar9.The Eco-Queer Tree of South African ConstitutionalismFrancois Lion-Cachet, University of Cape Town, South AfricaTESTIMONIES 10.1995, Reading the Signs of the time Philippe-Joseph Salazar, University of Cape Town, South Africa11.‘Transafrica: Joan Hambidge to Chantal Zabus Joan Hambidge, University of Cape Town, South Africa12.Ó: An Essay on Pronouns and Power Among the YorùbáLogan February, Purdue University, USA13.‘After Queer, After Decriminalization: Botswana: John McAllister and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile in Conversation’John McAllister, formerly of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2014) and Between Rites and Rights (2007; 2016). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text.Chris Dunton has worked at universities in Nigeria, Libya and South Africa, and was most recently Professor and Dean of Humanities at the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho. He is the author of e.g. Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Theatre in English since 1970 (1992); (with Mai Palmberg) Human Rights and Homosexuality (1996); Nigerian Theatre in English (1998). Dunton was the first Anglophone scholar to publish work on homosexualities in African literature.

From a “post-queer” perspective, this interdisciplinary collection makes an invaluable contribution to LGBTQI African studies through a wide variety of thematic and theoretical approaches. Offering broad coverage of the continent and its languages, its chapters work through the multiple meanings contained in and promised the Trans in its title.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChantal Zabus and Chris Dunton CASE-STUDIES I.Islamic Africa1.Powers of resistance and the Lexicon of Post-Queer Sexuality in Muhammad Abdelnabi’s In the Spider’s Room Omar Boukhatem, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France2.Visualising Transgender Morocco: Daoud Aoulad-Syad’s Bye-Bye Souirty (Adieu Forain) Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh, USA3.Diasporic Trans/Forming in Diriye Osman’s The Butterfly Jungle, Afdhere Jama’s Being Queer and Somali, Tofik Dibi’s Djinn, and Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues John C. Hawley, University of Santa Clara, USAII.West Africa4.‘Dare Speak Their Name’: The Poetry of Logan FebruaryChris Dunton, formerly of National University of Lesotho 5.‘Deliver us from Evil’: Pentecostal Christianity, Queer Sexualities and the Language of Deliverance in Nigerian Literature Adriaan Van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK, and Belinda Makinana, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa6.Non)Genealogical Radical Queerness: On A Schizophrenic Reading of Frieda Ekotto’s Chuchote pas tropNaminata Diabate, Cornell University, USA III.Southern Africa7. Translects: Post-Queering Transgender in South African and Nigerian AutofictionsChantal Zabus, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France8.‘The Sarimbavy of Madagascar: Beyond Semantic Boundaries and the Politics of (In)visibilisationAlyette Rajaofera Andriamasinalivao, University of Paris-Diderot, France & Université d’ Antananarivo, Madagascar9.The Eco-Queer Tree of South African ConstitutionalismFrancois Lion-Cachet, University of Cape Town, South AfricaTESTIMONIES 10.1995, Reading the Signs of the time Philippe-Joseph Salazar, University of Cape Town, South Africa11.‘Transafrica: Joan Hambidge to Chantal Zabus Joan Hambidge, University of Cape Town, South Africa12.Ó: An Essay on Pronouns and Power Among the YorùbáLogan February, Purdue University, USA13.‘After Queer, After Decriminalization: Botswana: John McAllister and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile in Conversation’John McAllister, formerly of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile