Amphibious Subjects

"This book is a powerful synthesis of African theorization and rigorous fieldwork that presents an engaging and convincing read of a location. Kwame Edwin Otu's work is not simply meaningful for Jamestown, for Accra, Ghana, or West Africa; it has real import elsewhere while remaining committed to its locality and subjects, a rare feat."--T. J. Tallie, author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa "A unique project based on groundbreaking research. There is no other work that gives such elegant insight into the multifarious desires of queer life--in an African city or anywhere. Otu convincingly shows how simplistic identity categories are confounded by the fluidities and illegibilities of lived queer experience."--Jesse Weaver Shipley, Professor of African and African American Studies and Oratory, Dartmouth College