This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet, to music, books, films, advertising, and images; thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject.

Ignatius Chukwumah is professor of African literature and popular culture at Federal University, Wukari, Nigeria.

Introduction PART I: Sex joke 1 Egyptian sex jokes: Perspectives, classification, and analysis SEBASTIAN GADOMSKI 2 Sex humour: Purveyor of sex mores and power matrices PATRICK CHESI LUMASIA 3 The theatre of jokers: An investigation of the joking relationship between the Tonga and Lozi of Zambia CHEELA CHILALA AND HUMPHREY M. KAPAU PART II: African language, folk music, and rhetorical strategies 4 Pudendic cult and public discourse: Pornogrammar rhetorical strategy in Ghana's public spaces JOSEPH BROOKMAN AMISSAH-ARTHUR 5 The dynamics of humour in coital imagery: Reflections on Bukusu Embalu and select East African popular music FRED W. SIMIYU AND FELIX ORINA PART III: Sex joke and the written word 6 Validating the subversive: A (re)reading of sex images in Okot p'Bitek's Song of Malaya BARASA REMMY SHIUNDU 7 Through the lens of gender: Sex jokes in selected contemporary East African popular fiction VINCENT ODHIAMBO ODUOR PART IV: (Cis)gender, ideology, and discourse 8 "I beg to differ": Queer notes on Kenyan editorial cartoons EDDIE OMBAGI 9 Sex jokes and ideology: A sociopragmatic inquiry of the place of humour in gender performance and practices BENEDICTA ADOKARLEY LOMOTEY AND GRACE DIABAH 10 Reinforcing gendered scripts: Sexuality and double performance in Helen Paul's joke-performance IGNATIUS CHUKWUMAH PART V: Bodies and representations 11 "Ooin, freaky freaky, you are doing well": A discourse analysis of the representations of women in selected Nigerian skits IBUKUN FILANI AND ADEOTI OLUWATOMI 12 The humour of erotica: Representations of women in Ghanaian social media HANNAH WOODE AMISSAH-ARTHUR PART VI: Resistance and responses 13 Bizarre masculinity: Female response to rape jokes on social media in Nigeria MARTIN OKWOLI OGBA 14 "Good for the goose, better for the gander": Female sex jokes responses as resistance to cultural convention in selected social media chats SANDRA NNABUIFE NWAGBOSO AND ADACHUKWU AMALACHUKWU OKAFOR