Forgetfulness is part of the human condition. In fact, it can sometimes be a therapeutic mechanism for dealing with traumas. Some societies practice forgetfulness as a tool for moving beyond a moment in their collective history whose remembrance can evoke in its members traumas that diminish their existence. Africa is not left out in these dynamics. However, forgetfulness can be produced to allow for a type of control of the imagination, whether it is individual or social. The colonial and postcolonial histories of Africa can be said to be a time of the production of unhealthy forgetfulness intended for social and individual control. One of such forgetfulness plays out in the erasures of memories of Africa’s rich queer cultural praxes in precolonial times.