Drawing on anthropological studies of the pre-
colonial and colonial eras, it is possible to
document a vast array of same-se.x practises and
diverse understandings of gender across the
entire continent

Examples include:


1. One notably ‘‘explicit” Bushmen painting,
which depicts African men engaging in same-
s.ex se.xual activity.


2. In the late 1640s, a Dutch military attaché
documented Nzinga, a warrior woman in the
Ndongo kingdom of the Mbundu, who ruled as
‘‘king” rather than ‘‘queen”, dressed as a man
and surrounded herself with a harem of young
men who dressed as women and who were her
‘‘wives”.


3. Eighteenth century anthropologist, Father J-B.
Labat, documented the Ganga-Ya-Chibanda,
presiding priest of the Giagues, a group within
the Congo kingdom, who routinely cross-
dressed and was referred to as
‘‘grandmother”.

4. In traditional, monarchical Zande culture,
anthropological records described homose.xuality as ‘‘indigenous”. The Azande of the Northern Congo ‘‘routinely married” younger men who functioned as temporary wives – a practise that was institutionalised to such an extent that warriors would pay ‘‘brideprice” to the young man”s parents.


5. Amongst Bantu-speaking Pouhain farmers
(Bene, Bulu, Fang, Jaunde, Mokuk, Mwele,
Ntum and Pangwe) in present-day Gabon and
Cameroon, homose.xual intercourse was known
as bian nkû”ma– a medicine for wealth which
was transmitted through se.xual activity between men.


6. Similarly in Uganda, amongst the Nilotico
Lango, men who assumed ‘‘alternative gender
status” were known as mukodo dako. They
were treated as women and were permitted to
marry other men.

7. Same-se.x relationships were reported amongst other groups in Uganda, including the Bahima, …

8. the Banyoro and …

9. the Baganda. King Mwanga II, the Baganda monarch, was widely reported to have engaged in se.xual relations with his male subjects.

10. A Jesuit working in Southern Africa in 1606 described finding ‘‘Chibadi, which are Men
attired like Women, and behave themselves
womanly, ashamed to be called men”.


11. In the early 17th century in present-day
Angola, Portuguese priests Gaspar Azevereduc
and Antonius Sequerius encountered men who
spoke, sat and dressed like women, and who
entered into marriage with men. Such
marriages were ‘‘honored and even prized”.


12. In the Iteso communities, based in northwest
Kenya and Uganda, same-se.x relations existed
amongst men who behaved as and were
socially accepted as women.

13. Same-se.x practises were also recorded among the Banyoro and …

14. the Langi.

15. In pre-colonial Benin, homose.xuality was seen as a phase that boys passed through and grew out of.

16. There were practises of female-female marriages amongst the Nandi and …


17. Kisii of Kenya, as well as …


18. the Igbo of Nigeria,


19. the Nuer of Sudan and


20. the Kuria of Tanzania.


21. Among Cape Bantu, lesbianism was ascribed
to women who were in the process of
becoming chief diviners, known as isanuses.

source: www.76crimes.com/2014/01/30/21-varieties-of-traditional-african-homosexuality/

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So what next?

There were practises of female-female marriages the Igbo of Nigeria,

Proof?
I've never seen any historical account of this.