Table des matières

Foreword

• The rise of a militant scientific literature turned towards the present, struggling to understand the African past
• Underused and unique sources on same sex intimacies in Buganda
• Putting words on sexual intimacies in Buganda: an impossible dilemma full of traps and contradictions
• The return of debates over homosexuality in contemporary Uganda
• Outline of the work

Chapter 1

• Same-sex intimacies embedded in sacred kingship
• The myth of the Arab origin of “sodomy”
• Slaves and pages: same-sex intimacies in the royal capital of Buganda
• Conclusion

Chapter 2

• Cyprien Mutagwanya, a reluctant royal lover (1882)
• The Uganda Martyrs, “sodomy” and subversion
• A Catholic king’s cumbersome passion for boys and hemp (1888–1892)
• Conclusion

Chapter 3

• Keeping a reluctant and sinful king Anglican
• The politics of the first Ganda anti-sodomy law (1896)
• Homophobia?
• Conclusion

Annexes

Annex 1

Annex 2

Annex 3

Annex 4

Annex 5

Annex 6

White Fathers, Gibbs and Miti (23 July–2 August 1894)

Annex 7