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Queer film in Africa is rising – even in countries with the harshest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws

Queer film in Africa is rising – even in countries with the harshest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws

A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from filmmakers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process, it analyses what queerness is and means within the context of African countries. Its author, Gibson Ncube, is a lecturer and scholar who focuses his research on queerness in African cultural production – from literature to films. We asked him four questions. GIBSON NCUBE, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University Is there a growing queer representation in films from African countries? Yes, the last decade has seen a proliferation of these films. Nigeria’s Nollywood has produced a…
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Eternal mothers, whores or witches: being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe

Eternal mothers, whores or witches: being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe

Gibson Ncube, Associate Professor of French, University of Zimbabwe The political arena in Zimbabwe is a de facto male space in which women play very peripheral and insignificant roles. Author and scholar Panashe Chigumadzi sums the situation up in an op-ed article, writing that It is not the place of women to rule, especially over men. Women who dare to aspire to rule are considered to be wild and unruly. Grace Mugabe, the former first lady of Zimbabwe, is one such woman, I argue in a paper on the tropes used to describe women in politics in the southern African…
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