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Homosexuality in Cameroon’s Public 4 Sphere: Rejecting Homosexuality as Protest against the Other

Micah J. King

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Feature Article

Publication Date

Spring 5-1-2007

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Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest: WUURD 2(2)

Abstract

Faculty Mentor: Robert L. Canfield

This research examines the emergence of homosexuality into Cameroon’s public sphere. It explores the “Top 50” list that named elite Cameroonians as homosexuals, as well as other events, and their role in the emergence of homosexuality into Cameroon’s public sphere. To understand the List and its effects, this study examines the events lead- ing up to the List and emergence. This research posits that the List is the main catalyst for the emergence of homosexuality into the public sphere, and that the resulting discourse has opened a space in which Cameroonians critique homosexuality as a means of denouncing what homosexuality has come to represent, namely Westernization, corrup- tion and the elite class. This study builds upon Charles Gueboguo’s work on homosexuality in Cameroon in order to create a basis for understanding homosexuality in post-List Cameroon.

From the Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest: WUURD, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 2007. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research.

Henry Biggs, Director of Undergraduate Research and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Joy Zalis Kiefer, Undergraduate Research Coordinator, Editor, and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Kristin Sobotka, Co-editor.

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