Intimate archives: rethinking gender in African Studies

Abstract

On 14 April 2021, the Governing Intimacies: Sexualities, Gender and Governance in the Postcolonial World research project, convened by Associate Professor Srila Roy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, hosted a webinar discussion between Oluwakemi M. Balogun (University of Oregon), Simidele Dosekun (London School of Economics), and Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué (University of Wisconsin) about their recently published books: Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation (Balogun, 2020); Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture (Dosekun, 2020), and Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (Mougoué, 2019). The webinar was organised and hosted by Professor Srila Roy and Dr Caio Simões De Araújo