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Sent: Wed 11/02/2009 15:16 Subject: Re: Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? Vis-a-vis the discussion of 'Africa', the story here does an unusally good job of transmitting one sex worker's voice. He discusses homosexuality and health rights and he's in Kenya: http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin/male-sex-worker-in-kenya-with-important-clients Laura María Agustín El Sab, 7 de Febrero de 2009, 16:55, Healey D. escribió: > From: Keguro Macharia [mailto:kmachari@umd.edu] > Sent: Sat 07/02/2009 11:09 > Subject: Re: Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? > > Dear Rood, > > A few quick, necessary corrections. > > South Africa and Ethiopia are two countries in a > continent of over 50 unique countries. We > Africanists get testy when comments based on a few > countries are generalized over the entire continent. > A question about "African" men is about as specific > as a question about "white" men. (On what continent? > In which country? What specific ages and > occupations? And so on.) > > There are well-documented, available studies (many > of them free online, some through jstor and project > muse) that track the sexual habits of specific kinds > of men in specific locations in Africa engaged in > specific occupations. Say, for example, the sexual > practices of long-distance truckers in the broader > region of East Africa. This level of specificity > helps to avoid unnecessary friction between > Africanists and non-Africanists. > > While I appreciate that resources on Africa may not > be as readily available as, say, resources on the > States and Europe, they ARE available. We can > certainly begin with what journalists tell us, but > we can then extend such work in scholarly > ways--there are tools available to do so--and avoid > a kind of "is it true African men do this or that?" > truth-seeking strategy. > > Best, > > Keguro > > > > ___ > Keguro Macharia > Assistant Professor of English > University of Maryland, College Park > 4130 Susquehanna Hall > College Park, MD 20742 > Ph: 301-405-3747 > >
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