Black Masculinity, Migration and Psychological Crisis — A Reading of Simon Njami’s

The construction of African male blackness is read against the backdrop of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, a text that informed the writings of Simon Njami as well as of authors such as Dambudzo Merechara, Dillibe Onyeama, and Daniel Biyaoula. Njami’s African Gigolo exposes the ‘pathological patterns’ of male behaviour and the mythical image of black male sexuality to be structurally rooted in (historically established) reciprocal assumptions about Euro-African gendered encounters

African studies · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Masculinity · Psychoanalysis · Reciprocal · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · South African History and Culture