The chapter seeks to engage with the river between the rational and emotional to ask broader questions of existence in the context of epistemological spatial migration between spaces marked as rational and those that are emotional. This chapter attempts to engage in liquid spaces marked as non-existence, state of nature and war to start asking whether we can have a new grammar of understanding and conceptualizing masculinity beyond the contemporary heteronormative and linear perspective. The chapter seeks to bring on board African values, realities and histories to help re-conceptualize current heteronormative narratives that shape everyday social life. Much of the discussion on masculinity centralizes gender performances, which seems to expunge other forms of social realities such as race, sexuality, disability and other forms of social realities. Even with a renewed resurgence of decolonizing masculinity studies through the inclusion of Asian, Black and Latino masculinity as well as the discussion of sexualities, Indigenous masculinities continue to disappear in these conversations. This chapter seeks to centralize the role of Indigenous masculinities as an anti-colonial praxis against the heteronormativity still hanging around masculinity studies. It applies the African-Kenyan perspective to decolonize the Western understanding of masculinity.

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African Indigenous Masculinities: An Anti-colonial Praxis

  • Dionisio Nyaga

摘要

The chapter seeks to engage with the river between the rational and emotional to ask broader questions of existence in the context of epistemological spatial migration between spaces marked as rational and those that are emotional. This chapter attempts to engage in liquid spaces marked as non-existence, state of nature and war to start asking whether we can have a new grammar of understanding and conceptualizing masculinity beyond the contemporary heteronormative and linear perspective. The chapter seeks to bring on board African values, realities and histories to help re-conceptualize current heteronormative narratives that shape everyday social life. Much of the discussion on masculinity centralizes gender performances, which seems to expunge other forms of social realities such as race, sexuality, disability and other forms of social realities. Even with a renewed resurgence of decolonizing masculinity studies through the inclusion of Asian, Black and Latino masculinity as well as the discussion of sexualities, Indigenous masculinities continue to disappear in these conversations. This chapter seeks to centralize the role of Indigenous masculinities as an anti-colonial praxis against the heteronormativity still hanging around masculinity studies. It applies the African-Kenyan perspective to decolonize the Western understanding of masculinity.