Africa

Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

“…Although the study of affections, particularly love, has long been neglected in Africanist scholarship, there is a growing body of literature exploring how emotions have been embedded in cultural practices and have shaped particular historical contexts. This scholarship has traced the changing understandings and embodiments of love and intimacy, as well as the rise of global ideals of marriage and romantic relationships (Smith 2006;Cole and Thomas 2009;Hunter 2010;Vongsathorn 2022).…”