Stephen O. Murray (1950-2019) was an independent scholar who held a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Will Roscoe is an independent scholar, with a PhD in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. They are the coeditors of Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature.

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New Foreword
Marc Epprecht
The Genesis of Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
Stephen O. Murray
Preface: "All Very Confusing"
Africa and African Homosexualities: An Introduction
Part I: Horn of Africa, Sudan, and East Africa
Overview
"A Feeling within Me": Kamau, a 25-Year-Old Kikuyu
Stephen O. Murray
Occurrences of Contrary-Sex among the Negro Population of Zanzibar (1899)
M. Haberlandt, translated by Bradley Rose
Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magei: "Homosexuality" on the East African Coast
Deborah P. Amory
Part II: West Africa
Overview
A 1958 Visit to a Dakar Boy Brothel
Michael Davidson
Male Lesbians and Other Queer Notions in Hausa
Rudolf P. Gaudio
West African Homoeroticism: West African Men Who Have Sex with Men
Nii Ajen
Part III: Central Africa
Overview
Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921, 1911)
Günther Tessmann, translated by Bradley Rose
Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1687)
Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi, translated by Will Roscoe
Same-Sex Life among a Few Negro Tribes of Angola (1923)
Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose
Part IV: Southern Africa
Overview
Homosexuality among the Natives of Southwest Africa (1925-1926)
Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose and Will Roscoe
"Good God Almighty, What's This!": Homosexual "Crime" in Early Colonial Zimbabwe
Marc Epprecht
"When a Woman Loves a Woman" in Lesotho: Love, Sex, and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia
Kendall
Sexual Politics in Contemporary Southern Africa
Stephen O. Murray
Part V: Conclusions
Woman-Woman Marriage in Africa
Joseph M. Carrier and Stephen O. Murray
Diversity and Identity: The Challenge of African Homosexualities
Appendix 1: African Groups with Same-Sex Patterns
Appendix 2: Organizations of Homosexuality and Other
Social Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen O. Murray
Bibliography
Index