CLP: Sex, Secrecy, and the Queer Lives of ‘Spoiled’ Children in East Africa
Furman Hall 214, McEachern Lecture HallIn twentieth-century East Africa, children and young people had to contend with complex and inconsistent rules about sex and maturation. While many indigenous authorities considered juvenile sex meaningless before the person completed customary rites of passage, Christian missionary, Islamic reformist, and British colonial campaigns against “unnatural offence” and “defilement” taught boys of all ages to […]