Welcome to Feminist Africa's thematic focus on sexualities. This issue provides us with the opportunity to continue some of the debates initiated by Patricia MacFadden, Charmaine Pereira and Sylvia Tamale in an earlier issue (see Feminist Africa 2). In keeping with Feminist Africa's intellectual development agenda, the present issue also provides a platform for new research carried out by leading African feminist thinkers. The three feature articles present thought-provoking material drawn from the Mapping Sexualities Research Project. This is possibly the first project in the transnational field of sexuality research to have been carried out by African researchers rooted in feminist praxis.1 Through this new knowledge, we provide ourselves with the opportunity to deepen and further inform the ongoing debates and struggles around various aspects of sexuality.
Editorial
Editorial
- by Amina Mama, Charmaine Pereira and Takyiwaa Manuh
Features
Eroticism, sensuality and "women's secrets" among the Baganda: A critical analysis
- by Sylvia Tamale
What makes a woman a witch?
- by Yaba Badoe
Zina and transgressive heterosexualtiy in northern Nigeria
- by Charmaine Pereira
Standpoints
Subversive pleasures, spaces of agency: Some reflections on lesbian and gay service-delivery work in eThekwini
- by Vasu Reddy
Transnational feminism revisited
- by Amrita Basu
Tribute
"The Travelling Salesman" A Tribute to K.Sello Duiker: 1974 - 2005
- by Sam Radithalo
Profiles
"Doing Gender in Southern African Universities": Reflections on a research forum celebrating ten years of Women's and Gender Studies at UWC
- by Tamara Shefer and Judy Aulette
In Conversation
The personal remains political: Elaine Salo speaks with Rhoda Kadalie
A space in which "vagina" is not a dirty word: The Vagina Monologues on the GWSA listserv
- compiled by Helen Moffett
Reviews
Fashioning Africa edited by Jean Allman
- reviewed by Muthoni Kimani
The Closest of Strangers: South African women's life writing - edited by Judith Lutge Coullie
- reviewed by Awino Okech
The Almond: the sexual awakening of a Muslim woman by Nedjma
- reviewed by Helen Moffett
These Hands by Makhosazana Xaba; and An Infinite Longing for Love by Lisa Combrink
- reviewed by Leloba Molema