Acknowledgments Introduction Chantal Zabus and Chris Dunton CASE-STUDIES I.Islamic Africa 1.Powers of resistance and the Lexicon of Post-Queer Sexuality in Muhammad Abdelnabi's In the Spider's Room Omar Boukhatem, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France 2.Visualising Transgender Morocco: Daoud Aoulad-Syad's Bye-Bye Souirty (Adieu Forain) Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh, USA 3.Diasporic Trans/Forming in Diriye Osman's The Butterfly Jungle, Afdhere Jama's Being Queer and Somali, Tofik Dibi's Djinn, and Lamya H's Hijab Butch Blues John C. Hawley, University of Santa Clara, USA II.West Africa 4.

'Dare Speak Their Name': The Poetry of Logan February Chris Dunton, formerly of National University of Lesotho 5.'Deliver us from Evil': Pentecostal Christianity, Queer Sexualities and the Language of Deliverance in Nigerian Literature Adriaan Van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK, and Abenathi Z. Makinana, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa 6.Non-Genealogical Radical Queerness: On A Schizophrenic Reading of Frieda Ekotto's Chuchote pas trop Naminata Diabate, Cornell University, USA III.Southern Africa 7. Translects: Post-Queering Transgender in South African and Nigerian Autofictions Chantal Zabus, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France 8.'The Sarimbavy of Madagascar: Beyond Semantic Boundaries and the Politics of (In)visibilisation Alyette Rajaofera Andriamasinalivao, University of Paris-Diderot, France & Université d' Antananarivo, Madagascar 9.The Eco-Queer Tree of South African Constitutionalism Francois Lion-Cachet, University of Cape Town, South Africa TESTIMONIES 10.

1995, Reading the Signs of the time Philippe-Joseph Salazar, University of Cape Town, South Africa 11.'Transafrica: Joan Hambidge to Chantal Zabus Joan Hambidge, University of Cape Town, South Africa 12.Ó: An Essay on Pronouns and Power Among the Yorùbá Logan February, Purdue University, USA 13.'After Queer, After Decriminalization: Botswana: John McAllister and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile in Conversation' John McAllister, formerly of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile.