Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa / / Adrian Jjuuko, Sylvie Namwase.

• VerfasserIn: Jjuuko, Adrian,; Namwase, Sylvie,
• TeilnehmendeR: Namwase, Sylvie,
• Place / Publishing House: Pretoria : : Pretoria University Law Press (PULP),, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (323 p.)

This collection of essays, Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa, contains papers that were first presented at a colloquium on sexual minority rights in Africa, which took place at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, in December 2014. This event was made possible with the generous support of the Government of the Kingdom of Norway, through its Embassy in South Africa. These papers were subsequently peer-reviewed and reworked. Viewing homosexuality through a legal and rights-based prism, this volume brings together fourteen essays focusing on various aspects of homosexuality, covering a wide rage of countries from across the continent. The situation in nine countries (Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe) is reviewed; while other contributions are more regional in their perspective. This makes this publication one of the most comprehensive collections of African voices on this topic. For too long African voices have been silent on the fledgling discourse on sexual minorities. This volume seeks to amend this shortcoming. The editors and authors and contributors are not only African, but also, with a few exceptions, graduates of the Centre’s Master’s programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa. The publisher is an African-based publisher, the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), based at the Centre for Human Rights.

Table of Contents

Pt. I. Introduction -- Sexual minorities rights in Africa : What does it mean to be human; and who gets to decide? -- pt. II. Regulation of sexual orientation in Pre-Colonial Africa -- A triple heritage of sexuality? Regulation of sexual orientation in Africa in historic perspective -- pt III. Country context -- Culture versus homosexuality : can a right 'from' culture be claimed in Ugandan courts? Decriminalization of homosexuality in Kenya : the prospects and challenges -- Somewhere over the rainbow : the continued struggle for the realisation of lesbian and gay rights in South Africa -- First class Constitution, second class citizen : exploring the adoption of the third-gender category in South Africa -- The suppression of sexual minorities rights : a case study of Zimbabwe -- A psycho-legal reflection on issue surrounding the LGBTI community in Mauritius -- The legal status of LGBTI rights in Botswana and its implications for social justice -- Human rights and the criminalisation of same-sex marriage (Prohibition) act -- Protecting same-sex rights in Nigeria : case note on Teriah Joseph Ebah v Federal Government in Nigeria -- The status of sexual minority rights in Cameroon -- pt. IV. The African human rights system -- The protection and promotion of LGBTI rights in the African region human rights system : opportunities and challenges.