Explain how some gender, sexual and family dynamics in African societies are unique and how some are similar to other societies.

Short Assignment #3

Below are the details for this paper! Have attached the readings as well. There are 8 attachments in total, but 9 documents for reading,couldnt find one of the attachments. There are also 2 online films, but only one you actually need to review/watch. You dont have to read all of the readings, just enough for you to be able to write the paper, so feel free to choose which readings youd like to use/reference and go from there, based on the topic of the assignment (below). Believe referencing at least two should be okay. Feel free to let me know if you need more details!

Assignment – Explain how some gender, sexual and family dynamics in African societies are unique and how some are similar to other societies.Include in your discussion a reference to precolonial Yoruba gender norms and ideas around sexuality as alluded to in film “Rafiki”.

Readings/Film as mentioned above that you can choose to reference:

Session 6 Readings/Films – Topic: Gender /Kinship
1) Amadiume, Ifi (1987) “ Introduction” and “ Ideology of Gender” Male Daughters, Female
Husbands : Gender and Sex in African Society “ London. Zed Books.

2) Kihato, Caroline (2013) “ Turning the Home Inside-Out- Private Space and Everyday Politics” in
Migrant Women of Johannesburg : Everyday Life in an in Between City.pp.90-112.Palgrave
Macmillan. (dont have this attachment but feel free to google if you'd like to read/use it!)

3) Njambi, Wairimu and William O’ Brian( 2005) Revisiting “Woman-Woman Marriage”: Notes on
Gikuyu Women in African Gender Studies. pp 145-165. Palgrave Macmillan.

4) Nyanzi, Stella (2011) “Sleeping With My Dead Husbands Brother” The Impact of HIV on
Widowhood and Widow Inheritance in Kampala, Uganda” in Fourth Wave : Violence, Gender,
Culture, & HIV in the 21st Century .pp 295-317

5) Oyewumi, Oyeronke (2005)“Reconstituting The Cosmology and SocioCultural Institutions of
Oyo-Yoruba; Articulating the Yoruba World Sense in African Gender Studies. pp. 99-119.
Palgrave Macmillan.

6) Online Film “Neria”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Un8wyhOQ0&t=2844s

Session 7 Readings/Films – Topic: Sexualities
1) Hendriks, Thomas “SIM Cards of Desire: Sexual Versatility and Male Homoerotic Economy in
Urban Congo” pp. 230-242. American Ethnologist Volume 43 issue 2 2016

2) Mbasalaki, Phoebe Kisubi (2019) “Women Who Love Women Negotiation of Afican Traditions
and Kinship” in Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies. pp. 37-48

3) Nyanzi, Stella (2014) “ Queering Queer Africa” in “Reclaiming Afrikan: queer Perspectives on
Sexual Gender Identities” Modjaj Books Pty Ltd

4) Tamale, Sylvia (2006) “Eroticism, Sensuality and Womens Secrets Among the Baganda” Institute
of Development Studies 37:5 pp.89-97

5) Online Film “Rafiki” ( Kanopy)
https://nyu.kanopy.com/product/rafiki