Contemporary Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Yaya Fonye Odette

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Africa has fostered a rich culture of gender and sexuality from which non-African societies can learn. Most African traditional sexual customs differ greatly from Western colonial thought, which prioritises an individualism that respects the individual's free will and way of life. Regardless of the existence of various images of Africa, globalisation and conflict have made it inevitable that African people today must respond to sudden changes in the political environment and norms due to the influx of new thoughts and ideas. From colonial tensions to the consequences of globalisation, women easily have to sacrifice their sexualities. Also, the reader can observe that the Japanese/African ethnographic surveys in this book are influenced by the researchers' personal backgrounds, including their religion, social class, and sexual orientation.

Part I. Changes and Potentials in Customary Marriage Systems and People's Responses in Traditional African Patriarchal Societies

1. Who Cares for an Illegitimate Child? Rethinking Kinship and Care Potential Based on Cases of Pregnancy in Unmarried Girls among the Maale of Ethiopia

2. Changes in the Traditional Social System of Polygyny: Kenya's Independence to the Present

3. Ageing and Care in Africa: A Case Study of Rural Women's Lives in Kenya

Part II: Women's Life Courses and Potentials: Experiences in Colonial Days, the War after Independence and the Present

4. Fashion of Co-Existence: Potentials of the Herero People's Clothing Behaviours in Namibia through Colonial Experiences and Daily Aesthetics

5. Comparative Study on Women Fighters in Africa's Liberation Struggles: The Experiences of South Africa and Ethiopia

Part III: Women's Sexuality and Violence

6. The Risk of Infertility in Women Infibulated in Childhood: Experiences of Pokot Women in East Africa

7. Enduring and Trading Trauma for Livelihood: Narratives of Female Survivors in Conflicts Over Transboundary Protected Areas in Uganda

8. Sexual Violence Experiences of Young Women Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army: Implications for Their Social Reintegration and Agency in Northern Uganda

Part IV: Identity of Gender/Sexuality and Socio-Political Movements among Young People

9. Negotiating Potentials on Their Foreheads: Emerging Issue of Scarification among Nuer Youth after the 2013 Violence in South Sudan

10. Ugandan Sexual Minorities in a Global Context: Potentials, Perceptions and Threats of Extermination

11. Forget-Me-Not

Sujets

• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité
• Culture
• Gender studies
• Social
• Anthropology
• Social sciences
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science
• Ethnic Studies
• African Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 26 août 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9789956552962
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 20 Mo

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Contemporary Gender and Sexuality in Africa: African-Japanese Anthropological Approach

Edited by

Wakana Shiino and Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu In collaboration

 L a ng a a R P CIG  M a nk on B a m end a

 CAAS Kyoto U niversity

Publisher: LangaaRPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net In Collaboration with The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com

ISBN-10: 9956-552-72-0 ISBN-13: 978-9956-552-72-6 ©Wakana Shiino and Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

Notes on Contributors Haruka ARII(Ph.D.) is Lecturer at Hokkaido University of Education, Japan. Her major works include: ‘How women choose their schooling in their life course: The case of Maale, southwestern Ethiopia’,Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, No. 21, pp. 1–14 (2016) and ‘“A woman like a man” and “a stupid woman”: The narrative of gendered value and the expansion of school education in Maale, southwestern Ethiopia’,African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, No. 54, pp. 101–114 (2018). Keiji FUJIMOTOis a photographer based in Tokyo. He has created several photo projects, including the one focusing on a daily life of East African gay people. He has received lots of photo awards such as Lens Culture Emerging Talent Award, and his works have been exhibited in galleries, museums and photo festivals internationally. He continues shooting the people living in a shadow of society. Eri HASHIMOTO(Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rikkyo University, Japan. Her research fields are South Sudan and Uganda. Her research interests are prophecy and divinity among Western Nilotic people. Recently, she has been working on refugee and forced migration studies. Her major work isE Kuoth: An Ethnography of Prophecy and Passioness among the Nuer of South Sudan, Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press (2018, in Japanese). Yumi KAMURO(Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University Archives, Japan. Her research fields are Namibia and Japan (Minamata). Her major work isClothing Behaviour: TheCreation of Colonial Experience and Aesthetic Aspects among the Herero People in Namibia, Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press (2019, in Japanese). Ian KARUSIGARIRA(Ph.D.) is Lecturer at the National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. His research field is Uganda. His thematic research areas are contentious politics, gerontological studies, youth studies and revolutionary regime ethics and culture. His works include: ‘Uganda’s revolutionary memory,

victimhood and regime survival’,ASC-TUFS Working Papers 2019, Fuchu: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2020); ‘Youth unemployment and social power-relations among families in Uganda’, in W. Shiino, S. Shiraishi and C. M. Mpyangu (eds)Diversification and Reorganization of ‘Family’ in Uganda and Kenya: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Fuchu: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2018); ‘The elderly, spiritualism and social power among Buhororo tribal societies in Uganda’, in W. Shiino, S. Shiraishi and T. G. Ondhicho (eds)Re- Finding African Local Assets and City Environments: Governance, Research and Reflexivity, Fuchu: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2016); and ‘The systemic police corruption: Beyond new sociological institutionalism’,ContemporaryInternational Multilingual Journal of Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 83–98 (2015). Momoka MAKIis Associate Professor in the Faculty of (Ph.D.) Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan. She studied political history and ethnic relationships in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her major works include: ‘Women and the armed struggle in Tigray, Ethiopia’,Sophia Journal of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies, No. 36, pp. 85-108 (2018). Her recent research topic is a comparative study on female soldiers in Africa, mainly in Ethiopia, Eritrea and South Africa. Motoji MATSUDASociology andEmeritus Professor of  is Anthropology, Kyoto University, Japan. His research fields are Nairobi and Western Kenya. His research topics are urbanisation, migration and conflict. His major works include:Urbanisation from Below, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press (1998);The Manifesto of Anthropology of the Everyday Life World, Kyoto: Sekaishisosha (2008, in Japanese);Conviviality: Exploring LocalAfrican Virtues in the Pursuit of Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions(co-edited with I. Ohta and Y. Gebre), Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG (2017); andThe Challenge of African Potentials: Conviviality, Informality and Futurity(co-edited with Y. Ofosu- Kusi), Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG (2020). Kaori MIYACHIa visiting researcher in Research Institute for is Gender Equality at Saga University, Japan. She has carried out researches on gender issues in Kenya, such as reproductive health/rights and ageing, as a social anthropologist (M.A. in Social

Anthropology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and M.A. in Anthropology of Development, Sussex University). Her major works on female genital cutting include: ‘Cultural transformation: Sociocultural aspects of female circumcision among the Gusii people in Kenya’,Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, Vol. 19, pp. 1-15 (2014). She also contributed in development programmes of UNFPA, IPPF and JICA in Africa, Asia and South American countries. Her recent ageing study has been interdisciplinary, collaborating with Kenyan and other African institutions. Christine Mbabazi MPYANGU(Ph.D.) is Lecturer of Religious Studies in the Department of Religion and Peace Studies, Makerere University, Uganda. Some of her scholarly works include: ‘Negotiating family and kinship relationships among the Acholi in post-war northern Uganda’, in W. Shiino, S. Shiraishi and C. M. Mpyangu (eds)Diversification and Reorganization of ‘Family’ in Uganda and Kenya: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Fuchu: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 109–116 (2018) and ‘Rebuilding lives and relationships through forgiveness and reconciliation in northern Uganda’, in P. Musana, A. Crichton and C. Howell (eds)The Ugandan Churches and the Political Centre; Cooperation, Co-option and Confrontation, Cambridge: Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, pp. 151– 169 (2017). Constance MUDONDOAssistant Lecturer in Makerere is University. Her academic work largely focuses on transboundary protected areas in Uganda. She is currently a Ph.D. student of Sociology in Makerere University under the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) project titled ‘Strengthening Social Science Research for National Development’, a multidisciplinary research project focusing on a number of social issues that affect the development process in Uganda. She has worked on a number of projects in Uganda that aim at building resilience of local communities. Chris C. OPESEN (Ph.D. in Social Anthropology) is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University. He has also been a Technical Advisor – Participatory

Policy Research and Analysis in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (2011–2014). Among other things, he is an author of over ten academic papers on children, FGM, HIV/AIDS and PMTCT with an unmatched utopian passion for evidence-based decision making and policy impacting research. Wakana SHIINO (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. She has been doing her research on widows and house girls in Kenya and Uganda collaborating with African scholars at Makerere University and the University of Nairobi. Her recent collaborative works are: Re-Finding African Local Assets and City Environments: Governance, Research and Reflexivitywith S. Shiraishi and T. G. (co-edited Ondhicho), Fuchu: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2016) and Diversification and Reorganization of ‘Family’ in Uganda and Kenya: A Cross- Cultural Analysiswith S. Shiraishi and C. M. Mpyangu), (co-edited Fuchu: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2018). She is one of the founders of the East African–Japanese Researcher's Network (https://www.aajoint.live-on.net/en).

Table of Contents Series Preface: African Potentials for Convivial World-Making.............................................. xi Motoji Matsuda Introduction—Contemporary Gender and Sexuality in Africa: African-Japanese Anthropological Approach ................................................ 1 Wakana Shiino Part I. Changes and Potentials in Customary Marriage Systems and People’s Responses in Traditional African Patriarchal Societies 1.Who Cares for an Illegitimate Child? Rethinking Kinship and Care Potential Based on Cases of Pregnancy in Unmarried Girls among the Maale of Ethiopia ............................. 37 Haruka Arii 2.Changes in the Traditional Social System of Polygyny: Kenya's Independence to the Present ................................................................ 57 Wakana Shiino 3.Ageing and Care in Africa: A Case Study of Rural Women’s Lives in Kenya ...................... 91 Kaori Miyachi

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Part II: Women’s Life Courses and Potentials: Experiences in Colonial Days, the War after Independence and the Present 4.Fashion of Co-Existence: Potentials of the Herero People’s Clothing Behaviours in Namibia through Colonial Experiences and Daily Aesthetics ..................................................... 119 Yumi Kamuro 5.Comparative Study on Women Fighters in Africa’s Liberation Struggles: The Experiences of South Africa and Ethiopia ........... 151 Momoka Maki Part III: Women’s Sexuality and Violence 6.The Risk of Infertility in Women Infibulated in Childhood: Experiences of Pokot Women in East Africa.................................... 191 Chris C. Opesen 7.Enduring and Trading Trauma for Livelihood: Narratives of Female Survivors in Conflicts Over Transboundary Protected Areas in Uganda........................................... 209 Constance Mudondo

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8.Sexual Violence Experiences of Young Women Abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army: Implications for Their Social Reintegration and Agency in Northern Uganda ........................................ 239 Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu Part IV: Identity of Gender/Sexuality and Socio-Political Movements among Young People 9.Negotiating Potentials on Their Foreheads: Emerging Issue of Scarification among Nuer Youth after the 2013 Violence in South Sudan................................. 261 Eri Hashimoto 10.Ugandan Sexual Minorities in a Global Context: Potentials, Perceptions and Threats of Extermination............................................................... 283 Ian Karusigarira 11.Forget-Me-Not ............................................................. 309 Keiji Fujimoto Index.................................................................................. 333

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