Dust, Divinity & Desire: Reclaiming Queerness in Pre-Colonial West Africa | Emmanuel Aneriba-Iga | Essay
Ghanaian queerness is often framed as a western concept, yet the laws that criminalise queer identities are themselves western colonial imports. What is defended as cultural preservation is, in many ways, inherited Victorian and missionary morality. Before queerness was criminalised, it was contextualised — within cosmologies, ritual systems, and social structures that understood the […]
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Ghanaian queerness is often framed as a western concept, yet the laws that criminalise queer identities are themselves western colonial imports. What is defended as cultural preservation is, in many ways, inherited Victorian and missionary morality. Before queerness was criminalised, it was contextualised — within cosmologies, ritual systems, and social structures that understood the […]
