Description
Book SynopsisTells the story of the unexpected effects of The Rainbow Project (TRP), a LGBT rights program for young Namibians begun in response to President Nujoma's notorious hate speeches against homosexuals.
Trade ReviewOverall, Lorway convincingly illustrates that the refiguring of identity categories and subjectivities by Western aid organizations is not the solution to Africa's problems with homophobia or to the violent dilemmas faced by so many LGBT Africans. As in many other circumstances involving Western aid, it often does more harm than good.
* Africa *
Namibia's Rainbow Project is a very important book as it helps make sense of the time the Rainbow Youth live in and of how they can transform the situations they are facing. This book is creative and formulates key questions on the current Namibia's social, economic, and political reality that help enlighten the African situation as a whole. This book is ideal for teaching and for young researchers who need to know the complexity of projects about politics and health in Africa.
* Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
[This book] should be compulsory reading for all those GLBT groups that have embraced global issues and forgotten the dangers of wading in without very carefully thinking through the long-term implications of immediate action.
* Gay and Lesbian Review *
Namibia's Rainbow Project is a monograph that will captivate readers and help to dispel persisting misconceptions about queer Africans. This book is likely to interest students and scholars of social movements, gender, and sexuality in southern Africa and scholars who specialise in Namibia.
* Journal of Southern Africa Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Prologue: Approaching the Transnational
Introduction
1. The Instrumentality of Sex
2. Subjectivity as a Political Territory
3. Remaking Female Citizenship
4. The Naturalization of Intimate Partner Violence
5. Thinking Through the Foreigner Fetish
Conclusion: Post-structural Violence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
