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"It is in fact approaching West Africa with a colonial gaze that flattens and erases its gender and sexual diversity. It is also this same gaze that attaches a rigid notion of ‘Africanness’ to the culture of many diverse communities in West Africa." For @republicjournal ---
"It is in fact approaching West Africa with a colonial gaze that flattens and erases its gender and sexual diversity. It is also this same gaze that attaches a rigid notion of ‘Africanness’ to the culture of many diverse communities in West Africa." For @republicjournal ---
As ECOWAS turns 50, have queer people ever been safe in West Africa? In this urgent essay, Awo Dufie Fofie confronts the West African bloc’s role in consistently excluding queer lives from its vision of progress. ECOWAS states have collectively endorsed legal frameworks that…