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DESCRIPTION:Maxwell African Scholars Union presents: Kwame Edwin Otu On Sex
 ual Culture: Frantz Fanon\, Sexual Citizenship\, and the Male Body in “Pos
 t-Colonial” Ghana It is not uncommon to hear stories about the victimhood 
 of sexual minorities in sub-Saharan Africa. While these discourses offer s
 ome insights into the state of affairs of sexual minorities\, they efface 
 the larger historical\, transnational and neoliberal\, if not neocolonial 
 conundrums of “independent” nations on the sub-continent. Looking at Frant
 z Fanon’s compelling interrogation of both “national culture” and “nationa
 l consciousness”\, I engage with how the recent visibility of same-sex pol
 itics in Africa is reshaping the male body and definitions of masculinity 
 in Ghana. Drawing on Fanon’s critique of post-independence nationalism\, I
  question how the rhetoric of national culture is deployed to legitimate “
 hetero-sexual citizenship”. Furthermore\, I interrogate how Ghana’s coloni
 al past and her location in the transnational and the global\, complicate 
 the production of anti-homosexual discourses and what it means to be “Ghan
 aian” and also\, the ‘naturalization’ of hetero-sexual citizenship. Kwame 
 Edwin Otu did his undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of G
 hana. He received his M.A. in Sociology from Ohio University. Currently\, 
 Kwame is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of Anthropology wher
 e he is doing work on the male body\, sexual citizenship\, and the role of
  the Church and the State in Ghana. He has conducted preliminary fieldwork
  among sasso (self-identified effeminate men) men in Ghana to explore how 
 they code-switch their bodies in the wake of growing anti-homosexual rheto
 ric. Light Refreshments Will Be Served.
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SUMMARY:Maxwell African Scholars Union presents: Kwame Edwin Otu
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Maxwell African Scholars Union presents: Kwame
  Edwin Otu On Sexual Culture: Frantz Fanon\, Sexual Citizenship\, and the 
 Male Body in “Post-Colonial” Ghana It is not uncommon to hear stories abou
 t the victimhood of sexual minorities in sub-Saharan Africa. While these d
 iscourses offer some insights into the state of affairs of sexual minoriti
 es\, they efface the larger historical\, transnational and neoliberal\, if
  not neocolonial conundrums of “independent” nations on the sub-continent.
  Looking at Frantz Fanon’s compelling interrogation of both “national cult
 ure” and “national consciousness”\, I engage with how the recent visibilit
 y of same-sex politics in Africa is reshaping the male body and definition
 s of masculinity in Ghana. Drawing on Fanon’s critique of post-independenc
 e nationalism\, I question how the rhetoric of national culture is deploye
 d to legitimate “hetero-sexual citizenship”. Furthermore\, I interrogate h
 ow Ghana’s colonial past and her location in the transnational and the glo
 bal\, complicate the production of anti-homosexual discourses and what it 
 means to be “Ghanaian” and also\, the ‘naturalization’ of hetero-sexual ci
 tizenship. Kwame Edwin Otu did his undergraduate degree in Sociology at th
 e University of Ghana. He received his M.A. in Sociology from Ohio Univers
 ity. Currently\, Kwame is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of 
 Anthropology where he is doing work on the male body\, sexual citizenship\
 , and the role of the Church and the State in Ghana. He has conducted prel
 iminary fieldwork among sasso (self-identified effeminate men) men in Ghan
 a to explore how they code-switch their bodies in the wake of growing anti
 -homosexual rhetoric. Light Refreshments Will Be Served.<br>
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