Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Research, theory and methods -- 1. Researching and theorising sexualities in Africa -- 2. Doing research on sexuality in Africa: ethical dilemmas and the positioning of the researcher -- 3. From minuscule biomedical models to sexuality's depths -- 4. TRACKS: researching sexualities walking abOUT the city of Johannesburg -- 5. Dialoguing culture and sex: reflections from the field -- Questions for reflection -- Part 2: Sexuality, power and politics -- 6. Subversion and resistance: activist initiatives -- 7. The 'perils' of sex and the panics of race: the dangers of interracial sex in colonial Southern Rhodesia -- 8. Nudity and morality: legislating women's bodies and dress in Nigeria -- 9. 'Getting the nation talking about sex': reflections on the politics of sexuality and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa -- 10. Paradoxes of sex work and sexuality in modern-day Uganda -- 11. Love, power and resilience - life story -- 12. African LGBTI declaration -- 13. Two kinds of blue -- 14. A night in Zanzibar - life story -- 15. False memory -- 16. Dear Diary -- 17. EXPLAIN -- 18 My love (for Eudy Simelane) -- Questions for reflection -- Part 3: Mapping sexual representations and practices of identity -- 19. Representing African sexualities -- 20. Pious stardom: cinema and the Islamic revival in Egypt -- 21. Intersex: the forgotten constituency -- 22. The chronicle of an intersexed activist's journey -- 23. Gender dynamics: a transsexual overview -- 24. Barrenness and sexuality in the Ndau community -- Questions for reflection -- Part 4 Integrated and positive sexuality -- 25. 'Osunality' (or African eroticism) -- 26. Politics of naming sexual practices -- 27. My American Jon - fiction -- 28 Questions, questions - life story.

29. Penitence: hurry hurry, no speed -fiction -- 30. Love beads - fiction -- 31. Cinnamon -- 32. Covert sexuality -- 33. The dream in the next body -- 34. Nature's dance -- 35. Untitled -- Questions for reflection -- Part 5: Reproduction and rights -- 36. Sexual and reproductive health and rights -- 37. Morality, justice and gender: reading Muslim tradition on reproductive choices -- 38. Guilty until proven innocent: politics versus the press in defence of reproductive rights in Zambia -- 39. Abortion: a conversation with a taxi driver -- 40. The shedding of blood -- 41. Ode to my uterus -- 42. Ob/gyn experiences - life stories -- 43. Reflections on my journey with my womb - journal excerpts -- Questions for reflection -- Part 6: Sex and masculinities -- 44. Male sexualities and masculinities -- 45. Multiple meanings of manhood among boys in Ghana -- 46. 'Mombasa morans': embodiment, sexual morality and Samburu men in Kenya -- 47. Sexual orientation and human rights: putting homophobia on trial -- 48. 'I am not tassa, he is not a manlike other men': feminising infertility and masculinising fertility in South Nyanza, 1945-1960 -- 49. The phantoms of my opera -- 50. The kiss -- 51. The diamond in the G… - life story -- Questions for reflection -- Part 7: Who's having sex and who's not? -- 52. Unpacking the [govern]mentality of African sexualities -- 53. Sexuality, gender and disability in South Africa -- 54. The realities of 'choice' in Africa: implications for sexuality, vulnerability and HIV/AIDS -- 55. Wet towel -- 56. Challenges of sexuality and ageing in a barren woman: interview with Ssejja -- 57. AIDS sting(ma) -- 58. The gold rush - fiction -- Questions for reflection -- Part 8: Sexuality, spirituality and the supernatural -- 59. Sexuality and the supernatural in Africa.

60. 'African sex is dangerous!' Renegotiating 'ritual sex' in contemporary Masaka district, Uganda -- 61. Sangoma-hood, abstinence and celibacy among tangoma in Swaziland -- Questions for reflection -- Part 9: Pedagogical approaches -- 62. Creative methodological/pedagogical approaches to teaching sexuality in an African context -- 63. Interrogating the link between gendered sexualities, power and legal mechanisms: experiences from the lecture room -- 64. Through Zanele Muholi's eyes: re/imagining ways of seeing Black lesbians -- 65. A radical technique to teach sexual rights -- 66 Laabaan song -- Questions for reflection -- Glossary -- Index.