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Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences

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To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of homophobia and its interplay with other attitudes, in ways that explore contextual differences. Hence this article offers an original sociological analysis of quantitative data on homophobia in African states, examining how this inter-relates with xenophobia. Social attitudes data is drawn from the Afrobarometer research project as a unique and important source, and compared in five diverse contexts: Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Zambia. Data is examined from Round 6 (2014-15) and Round 7 (2016-18). Findings are interpreted in light of specific national literatures on the relations between sexuality, gender and nationalism, as well as wider critical and postcolonial perspectives ¿ especially conceptualisation of sexual nationalisms, and recent literatures on political homophobia. Whereas analyses of homonationalism in Western societies have explored alignments of LGBTI rights affirmation with anti-immigrant attitudes, the present study explores such relationships between homophobic and xenophobic attitudes in alternative patterns within specific African contexts. The analysis delivered not only challenges Western discourses of generalised African homophobia (especially discussing the counterexample of Mozambique) but also advances understanding of the complexity of how attitudes inter-relate in different postcolonial states.

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Homofòbia, Sexualitat, Dades de recerca, Diferències entre sexes (Psicologia), Àfrica

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Homophobia, Sex, Research data, Sex differences (Psychology), Africa

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FREUDE, Leon and WAITES, Matthew. Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences. Current Sociology. 2023. Vol. 71, num. 1, pags. 173-195. ISSN 0011-3921. [consulted: 14 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/192787

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