Chantal Zabus is Chair of Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at Université Paris 13-Sorbonne-Paris-Cité. She is author of Between Rites and Rights; The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel, and The Future of Postcolonial Literatures. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Postcolonial Text.

The book is a treasure trove of resources, bringing into view the scale and variety of the field of queer African studies and setting out a series of interesting discursive formations.

• Introduction: To Make Things Perfectly QueerAnthropological Wormholes: From Pederasts to Female HusbandsThe Text that Dare not Speak its Name: Forging Male Colonial IntimaciesThe School for Scandal: Missionary Positions & African Sexual InitiationsThe Stuff of Desire: Boarding-School Girls, Plain Lesbians & Teenage DykesApartheid, Queerness & DiasporaMale & Female MythologiesConclusion: Trans Africa

Chantal Zabus is Chair of Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at Université Paris 13-Sorbonne-Paris-Cité. She is author of Between Rites and Rights; The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel, and The Future of Postcolonial Literatures. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Postcolonial Text.

The book is a treasure trove of resources, bringing into view the scale and variety of the field of queer African studies and setting out a series of interesting discursive formations.

• Introduction: To Make Things Perfectly QueerAnthropological Wormholes: From Pederasts to Female HusbandsThe Text that Dare not Speak its Name: Forging Male Colonial IntimaciesThe School for Scandal: Missionary Positions & African Sexual InitiationsThe Stuff of Desire: Boarding-School Girls, Plain Lesbians & Teenage DykesApartheid, Queerness & DiasporaMale & Female MythologiesConclusion: Trans Africa

Chantal Zabus is Chair of Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at Université Paris 13-Sorbonne-Paris-Cité. She is author of Between Rites and Rights; The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel, and The Future of Postcolonial Literatures. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Postcolonial Text.

The book is a treasure trove of resources, bringing into view the scale and variety of the field of queer African studies and setting out a series of interesting discursive formations.

• Introduction: To Make Things Perfectly QueerAnthropological Wormholes: From Pederasts to Female HusbandsThe Text that Dare not Speak its Name: Forging Male Colonial IntimaciesThe School for Scandal: Missionary Positions & African Sexual InitiationsThe Stuff of Desire: Boarding-School Girls, Plain Lesbians & Teenage DykesApartheid, Queerness & DiasporaMale & Female MythologiesConclusion: Trans Africa