We're discussing the meaning of masculinity. What it could possibly mean in the African context and the complexities of identities within it. I’ve shared personal stories which are common with many of us across the continent; of boys who didn’t grow up close to their fathers for different reasons. I needed us to be curious about this word before we delved too deep. To conceptualize it in our day to day life. To interact both with its homeliness and queerness. To spark thought. For you and the boys and men around you.

It is necessary to understand how a combination of a colonial past, patriarchal cultural structures and a variety of religious and knowledge systems create masculine identities and sexualities.

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