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Article: African Queenlessness.(Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS)(Book review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
by Marc Epprecht
Ohio University Press. 231 pages, $19.95
THE IDEA that homosexuality can be imported from one country (or continent) to the next like a bag of exotic coffee beans is a persistent notion in colonial lore. The myth has especially strong roots when it comes to the continent of Africa. We've all heard the charge: Africa never had a "problem" with homosexuality before colonization, when those nasty French and English settlers, decked out in their imperialist safari hats, planted the seeds of sodomy on the continent.
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