ESF exploratory workshop on multiple modernities of same-sex sexuality in Nigeria : Maynooth (Ireland), 18-20th August, 2010 : scientific report

The workshop gathered 26 scholars from 9 ESF member states, Nigeria and the U.S.A. to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the social crises to which sexual politics have been linked in Nigeria. While a wide range of topics were discussed in different panels that extended across the three-day duration of the event, questions about the definition, translation and circulation of same-sex vocabularies recurred with specific attention to what exists and takes place outside the purview of the state. A central concern of the participants was to find ways of recognizing and representing same-sex desire and practice in Nigeria and in other parts of the so-called developing world without, at the same time, condoning the unilateral dissemination of Western gender/sexual codes through universal human rights instruments.