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57 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,836 African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • For churches Churches need to provide an environment where men feel comfortable in sharing their problems related to mental issues without any fear of being stigmatised or ridiculed. It is essential that the programs for mental health awareness, support groups, and counseling activities be included in the church setting (Doehring 2015:93).

    The Burden of Being a Man: A Theological Exploration of Masculinity, Emotional Suppression, and the Rising Suicide Rate Among South African Men · 2026 · DOI

  • its many to comprehend in order ramifications. that forces a nation-state to cede According to Abejirinde and Michael-Olomu (2024), there is no consensus on what constitutes globalization, making it a highly controversial phrase. For them, globalization is a phenomenon that has changed the world in various ways and caused western traditions, such as popular music, movies, and fashion, to spread. This has undermined the cultural identities of many communities, including ours in the Western Sahara. Perhaps the most significant factor influencing the is globalization. There are two reasons why the idea of globalization seems to be so popular now. contemporary international climate According to Abejirinde and Michael-Olomu (2024), there is no consensus on what constitutes globalization, making it a highly controversial phrase. For them, globalization is a phenomenon that has changed the world in various ways and caused western traditions, such as popular music, movies, and fashion, to spread. This has undermined the cultural identities 258 of many communities, in Sub-Saharan Africa. Perhaps the most the contemporary international climate is globalization. influencing significant factor crucial According to Ukhami, Lassana, and Kabir (2024), globalization is a complex and multidimensional notion that, depending on how it is viewed, is rife with ideological extrapolations. They view globalization as a cultural homogeneity and eradicating cultural diversity worldwide. According to Edet and Odey (2022), globalization is only the result of a global division of labor that unites a capitalist world economy. The logic of capital accumulation drives the system.

    Globalization of Same Sex Marriage: A Sociological Analysis of the Implications for Traditional African Societies · 2026 · DOI

  • On her examination of rape in the Cape Colony Pamela Scully (1995) stated that race, gender, and class guided colonial rule and that the sexual violence perpetrated against black women during colonial rule remains underinvestigated.

    Intergenerational Transmission of Intimate Partner Violence and Descendants of the Enslaved in Cape Town, South Africa · 2026 · DOI

  • The effectiveness of strategic communication methods used by CSOs to promote gender equality in Nairobi's grassroots projects remains undocumented. Paper [6] identifies that strategic communication (barazas, women's group meetings, advocacy campaigns) works in ASALs, but does not assess how CSOs in Nairobi's urban grassroots context adapt or implement these communication strategies.

    The Role of Strategic Communication in Girls and Women's Empowerment in Kenya's Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) · 2025 · DOI

  • As a folk religion, the practices, beliefs, and cosmologies of la 21 división are generally underexplored in the literature of Afro-diasporic religions.

    Wanga Speaks: An Ethno-theological Rendering of Black Genders and Sexualities · 2023 · DOI

  • Once you sift through the hard data little is known about this woman; she is encrypted under a veil of invisibility, her identities, her relationships, her gendered negotiations of daily life and her agency or ability or inability to grasp opportunities and influence her life course are gapingly absent from the noisy discourse—the narrative is aborted.

    Writing her in: an African Feminist Exploration into the Life Herstory Narrative of Dimakatso, a Woman Participant in the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) at Leratong Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa · 2019 · DOI

  • Despite a growing body of literature related to church leaders challenging dominant norms of masculinities that may enable the spread of HIV, research on masculinity issues among African church representatives who are policy makers is scarce.

    Church representatives’ perspectives on masculinities in the context of HIV: the case of the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa · 2016 · DOI

  • As an Amazigh woman linguist who has engaged with language and gender in Morocco for decades, I see the emergence of feminist Amazigh NGOs as a natural development that relocates Moroccan women’s issues in a larger-than-Islam framework, where secularism or Islamism or even a combination of both is insufficient.

    Emerging Amazigh Feminist Nongovernmental Organizations · 2016 · DOI

  • So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, for that matter who "liberate" themselves from the yoke of "conservative" gender ideologies articulated by Christian and Muslim communities in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Introduction: Religion and Masculinities in Africa · 2016 · DOI

  • Although the gender dimensions of HIV are recognized, the gendered structures of power that underscore the particular risk to women of infection are not fully understood, and the response fails to engage effectively with the gender context.

    Infectious Women · 2012 · DOI

  • (Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation) Discussing witch-hunting as a global phenomenon, at the end of Caliban and the Witch (2004), and commenting on the witch-hunts that have taken place in Africa and other parts of the world in the 1980s and 1990s, I expressed my concern that these persecutions were rarely reported in Europe and the U.

    Witch-Hunting, Globalization, and Feminist Solidarity in Africa Today · 2008

  • Thus, current gender mainstreaming strategies are limited by the superficiality of the approaches for addressing gender inequality and HIV/AIDS, underscoring the need for transformative planning.

    Mainstreaming Gender in HIV/AIDS Programs: Ongoing Challenges and New Opportunities in Malawi · 2005

  • This paper is intended to make a small contribution to the as yet limited knowledge of African prostitution by examining the growth and consequences of prostitution and its relationship to accumulation in the Upper Cross River Basin of Nigeria during the period 1930 to 1950.

    "Itinerant Gold Mines": Prostitution in the Cross River Basin of Nigeria, 1930-1950 · 1991 · DOI

  • A rarely explored but albeit important challenge is that researchers and civil society organizations (CSOs) often work in silos when it comes to CSE.

    African CSE Partnerships · 2026 · DOI

  • This body of work has provided an opening to illuminate underexplored histories of grassroots activism, mobilization, and community care that have countered sustained stigmatization, exclusion, and criminalization of deprioritized communities.

    Transforming the AIDS Pandemic as We Know It: AIDS Pasts, Present, and Futures in Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS · 2023 · DOI

  • Currently, little is known about how these changes have affected contemporary young South Africans’ parenting constructions, specifically higher socio-economic groups that are more likely to take up contemporary ideas.

    “A Child Needs Both a Mother and a Father”: The Parenting Constructions of a New Generation of Tertiary-Educated South African Prospective Parents · 2022 · DOI

  • Ultimately it hopes to contribute to the existing but limited research on understanding experiences of lesbian homosexuals by shedding light on cultural practices that are put in place in an attempt to normalise heterosexuality.

    Compulsory Heterosexuality and Homophobia: Reading of Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif · 2021 · DOI

  • Teachers play crucial roles in enacting CSE, yet only few studies have placed them centrally to understand CSE re-contextualisation in schools.

    Moulding the teacher: factors shaping teacher enactment of comprehensive sexuality education policy in Ethiopia · 2019 · DOI

  • Studies on albinism have been carried out in different contexts around the globe, but little is known so far about the effects of the misconceptions of albinism in the rural communities of Zimbabwe.

    Misconceptions Associated with Children Living with Albinism: Evidence from the Gutu District, Zimbabwe · 2018 · DOI

  • This article will investigate whether the tradition of suspecting women of killing their husbands is warranted and will also make suggestions on what can be done to deal with such beliefs.

    Biblical Moral Inquest into Tradition of Suspicion of Treachery on African Women upon Husband's Death · 2018

  • However, its resurfacing has often been crude and populist and what is lacking as I will argue is careful feminist analysis of the ways that local contexts figure in and shape global priorities.

    Global feminisms in a time of migration? Gender sexuality and asylum in South Africa · 2016 · DOI

  • Although women worldwide are increasingly taking on breadwinner roles, little is known about the experiences of unmarried breadwinner daughters, particularly those in non-Western societies who belong to cultures with rigid gender role prescriptions.

    Gender and Cultural Identity Work of Unmarried Indian Breadwinner Daughters in South Africa · 2016 · DOI

  • Similarly, it has been argued that same-sex family research is one of the important aspects of family scholarship that has not been adequately explored and it is yet to make a serious impact in family studies.

    ‘Love beyond colour’: the formation of interracial gay men's intimate relationships in post-apartheid South Africa · 2015 · DOI

  • Yet, their actions are not characterized by an outright rejection of traditional gender ideologies, but rather by piecemeal tactical manoeuvres to plot a route through the centrifugal forces at play.

    Caught Between Changing Tides: Gender and Kinship in Cape Verde · 2015 · DOI

  • The evidence adduced to support this consensus is largely convincing, but it does not account for all the features of contemporary African leaders’ homophobic discourses.

    TRANS-SAHARAN TRADE: THE ROUTES OF ‘AFRICAN SEXUALITY’ · 2014 · DOI

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