... the coarticulation of discretion and theatricality in Binyavanga Wainaina’s 2011 play Shine Your Eye , which features a queer Ogoni hacker in Lagos. The play borrows from Afrofuturism to articulate a queer African identity that is both enigmatic and spectacular. I then shift focus to Wainaina’s viral “coming out...

... South Africans juxtapose the queer with the customary as well as the financial as they constitute forms of queer biofinancial personhood that are paradigmatic of financialized capitalisms globally. The special issue concludes with Laura Edmondson s The Fabulous Pan- Africanism of Binyavanga Wainaina...

... the homog- enization of African sexuality counters a system of governance that excludes the homosexual in African colonial and postcolonial imaginaries. This contestation is highlighted in the works of African writers such as K. Sello Duiker, Chinelo Okparanta, and Binyavanga Wainaina, who deploy their art...