Sexual Citizenship in Postcolonial Zambia: From Zambian Humanism to Christian Nationalism

Only recently, links between sexuality, citizenship and ideologies of nationalism have begun to be explored, especially in the emerging body of literature addressing the current politics of homosexuality in Africa (Nyeck & Epprecht 2013; Nyanzi 2011). However, these accounts tend to focus on contemporary contexts and do not provide in-depth insight in the longue durée of sexual citizenship in African societies. As Ndjio (2013) demonstrates in his work on Cameroon, contemporary politics of homosexuality, and the promotion of a strictly heterosexual notion of ‘African’ citizenship, stand in a long tradition of politicising sexuality in postcolonial African states.