Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Africa: From Colonial Oppression to Embracing Diversity

effect and impacts that gender and sexuality have had on African people, especially African women. Based on Signe, approaches of studying gender and sexuality in Africa like colonial anthropology and post-colonial critiques defines masculinity as a dominating power that demands subordination from the female gender. The colonial construction representing gender and sexuality remains grounded on the fact that the male and female become governed and defined through gender-centered roles, which oug...