Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,194,680 members, 7,955,510 topics. Date: Sunday, 22 September 2024 at 08:00 AM |
Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Education / 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality (560 Views)
UI Ranked Nigeria’s Best, ABUAD Tops Private Varieties / Paradigms Of Traditional Public Administration (TPA) / HELP! Where Can I Get Stored Maize Varieties? (2) (3) (4)
21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by AzontoGhost(m): 7:51pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
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”. |
Re: 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by AzontoGhost(m): 7:55pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
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. |
Re: 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by AzontoGhost(m): 8:02pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
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. |
Re: 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by AzontoGhost(m): 8:05pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
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. |
Re: 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by AzontoGhost(m): 8:11pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
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. |
Re: 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by AzontoGhost(m): 8:13pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
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/ cc lalasticlala 1 Like |
Re: 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by Nobody: 8:16pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
So what next? |
Re: 21 Varieties Of Traditional African Homose.xuality by Nobody: 8:18pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
There were practises of female-female marriages the Igbo of Nigeria,Proof? I've never seen any historical account of this. |
(1) (Reply)
How Nigeria Rolls: A Miscarriage Of Competence / Please Kindly Help Us Proffer Solutions Before It's Late. / 5 Success Tips For Nursing Students Or Any Students At All
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 12 |