Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment

by Peter Geschiere and Rogers Orock

Decoding conspiracy thinking at the nexus of sexuality, Freemasonry, and the occult.

In this book, anthropologists Rogers Orock and Peter Geschiere examine the moral panic over a perceived rise in homosexuality that engulfed Cameroon and Gabon beginning in the early twenty-first century. As they uncover the origins of the conspiratorial narratives that fed this obsession, they argue that the public's fears were grounded in historically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226835863
• ISBN13: 9780226835860
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"