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Introduction: Writing Africa into Black Atlantic studies -- Blaise Diagne's cosmopolitanism and views on French colonialism -- W.E.B. Du Bois's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and relations with Blaise Diagne -- Marcus Garvey's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and responses to Blaise Diagne -- Kojo Touvalou-Houénou's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and relations with Marcus Garvey -- Lamine Senghor's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and similarities with Marcus Garvey -- George Padmore's cosmopolitanism and views on French colonialism -- Léopold Sédar Senghor's cosmopolitanism and responses to French colonialism -- Conclusion: Roadblocks to Black cosmopolitanism

Introduction: Toward Humane Scholarship in Gender and Sexualities /Besi Brillian Muhonja --Feminist Biographies - Telling Our Stories /Betty Wambui --"Beach-boy Elders" and "Young Big-men": Subverting the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya's Ethno-erotic Economies /George Paul Meiu --Redefining the Female Body: The Legislative Process against Female Circumcision in Kenya /Miriam Jerotich Kilimo --Still at a Crossroad: Theories in Activism and Fight for Rights of the LGBTI Community in Kenya /Dorothy Owino Rombo and Anne Namatsi Lutomia --Going on a Real Date: Afro-bubblegum and Female Same Sex Desire in Eastern African Literature /Joya Uraizee --Dimensions of Motherhood in an African World Sense: Ritual and Power among Avalogooli /Besi Brillian Muhonja --When Adult Status Trumps Gender: Recentering Tradition in Politics /Matthew K. Gichohi --Twenty Years After: Gender and Sexuality among Middle-Aged Professionals in Nairobi /Rachel Spronk --Conclusion: Utu/ubuntu: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Approaches to Africana Studies /Babacar M'Baye.

Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies emphasizes the urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies in and on Senegalese societies. Contributors explore how aspects of philosophy, politics, identity, literature, language, and community impact and are impacted by gender and sexuality in post-colonial Senegal.