... in the nineteenth-century colony of Natal brought them into conflict with the Zulu peoples they sought to supplant and exploit. A reading of emigrant letters, missionary pamphlets, and newspaper correspondence reveals that the persistence of the practice of isithembu (polygamy) and ilobolo (the ritual exchange...

... midcentury and disappoints after the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. The mission field is a site where gendered African enactments of ambivalence, ingenuity, and resistance surface. This chapter is also where African women's agentive maneuvers emerge most clearly. In a particularly adroit reading of sartorial...

.... Both of Rubin’s diagrams would have to find a way to represent the fact that South Africa’s new president Jacob Zuma, a self-­proclaimed “Zulu tradition- alist,” has five official wives. Where would one put monogamy in a South African sexual hierarchy? Never mind the chatter...

... and the Foundations of the System of Native Administration in Kwa-Zulu Natal . London : Institute of Commonwealth Studies . Hoad Neville . 2016 . “ Queer Customs against the Law .” Research in African Literatures 47 , no. 2 : 1 – 19 . Hoad Neville Osinubi Taiwo , eds. 2016 . “ Queer...

... to Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small-Town South Africa . Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press . Rodney Walter . 1972 . How Europe Underdeveloped Africa . London : Bogle-L’Overture Publications . Rogozen-Soltar M. H. 2012 . “ Ambivalent Inclusion...

... in transition. The book grew from Reid’s 2002 lo-­fi documentary, Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free, about a road trip in search of gay life outside the city. From 2003 to 2005, the period when gay marriage was under highly controversial judicial consideration, Reid carried out fieldwork in Zulu...

... Tallie, T. J. Is the Rectum a Mirror? Queer Queering Natal: Settler Logics and Palindromes in John Greyson’s Fig Trees the Disruptive Challenge of Zulu and Miranda July’s You and Me and Polygamy  167 – 190 Everyone We Know  191 – 215 Doyle, Jennifer Introduction: Dirt...

... Anthony Waal Shaun de , 73 – 86 . Johannesburg : Jacana Media . Reid Graeme . 2013 . How to Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small-Town South Africa . Scottsville : University of Kwa Zulu-Natal Press . Strathern Marilyn . 1988 . The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women...

... had been brutally murdered in a hate crime. Responding to a call for submissions for posters celebrating the significance of the first African World Cup, the artist Tracey Rose sent in a photo-­ collage of men wearing team shirts bearing the name “Eudy” and a Zulu warrior...

... to fight for their rights. The next day a local human rights organi- zation, the Zambian Independent Monitoring Team (ZIMT), took up the case; its leader, Alfred Zulu, stated, “We have been visited by Netherlands and US-based gay organizations who have expressed [the] desire...

... to the current presidential contender Jacob Zuma’s populist “Zulu warrior” posturing.47 South Africa thus appears to be moving toward a more depressingly familiar ver- sion of racially defined patriarchal heteronationalism. In its moment of committedly multiracial founding, however...

... on Black Americans and Politics in America Today, ed. Wahneema Lubiano (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), 289 – 99. 14. The exact quote from Zuma was as follows: “Same-­sex marriages are a disgrace to the nation and God. . . . In my day an ungqingili [considered by many Zulu-­speaking 318...