NATIVE AFRICAN TRIBESMEN
Homoerotic traditions in Africa have taken many forms, most of which have been either eradicated or are under siege from European mass culture or missionary work. Male love in Africa was intergenerational, or intra-generational as adolescent pairing, or gender-structured.
Ancient Egypt ~ In Egyptian mythology, Horus the Phoaroh god mates with
the god Seth; the seed of Horus emerges from Seth's forehead as a golden
disc that the moon god Thoth takes as an emblem of divine power.
1370-1352 BC ~ EGYPT: Pharoah Akhenaten (Amenhotep III, The Magnificent)
had a male co-regent Smenakhare, who bore the titles of an Egyptian queen.
2416-2392 B.C. BC ~ EGYPT: Fifth Dynasty: The tomb of a male couple,
Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep was discovered in 1964 in the necropolis of
Saqqara. They both had the title "Overseer Of The Manicurists In The
Palace Of The King."; Pharoah Niuserre Izi.
Native peoples: ~ Institutionalised homosexuality has been observed in
many tribes:
1823 ~ the Tanala and Bara of Madagascar (Leguerel de Lacombe);
1911 ~ the Nandi of Kenya and ~ the Thonga of Zimbabwe (Kaarsch-Haak);
1973 ~ the Meru of Kenya (Needham)
1920 ~ the Ovimbundu of Angola (Falk); 1930 ~ the Hottentot people of
Namibia (Schapera);
1923 ~ the Lango of Uganda (Driberg),
1932 ~ the Azande of Zaire (Seligman & Seligman),
1935 ~ the Wolof of Senegal and the Dahomey of West Africa(Gorer); c1945
~ the Akan of Ghana (Meyerowitz); 1954 ~ the Fanti of Ghana (Christensen);
1955 ~ the Ottoro of Nubia (Nadel);
1957 ~ the Iteso of Uganda (Laurance);
1959 ~ the Gisu of Uganda (La Fontaine);
1967 ~ the Sebei of Uganda (Goldschmidt);
1972 ~ the Dinka and Nuer of Sudan (MacDermot);
1976 ~ the Kwayama of Angola (Esterman);
1995 ~ the Jaga of Angola (Mott); and the Konso and Amhara of Ethiopia (Hallpike); the Azande of Zaire; Basotho women in Lesotho; the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso; the Kwayama; and the Zulu of South Africa.
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