SOCIOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY: THE AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE

The second African conference on Sexual Health and Rights in 2006 opened my academic vision and sociological binocular to the need for more researches in African sexuality. Acknowledging the dearth of socio-cultural and historical data on African sexuality in pen and paper, I took the challenge of conducting various researches using social science methodology to unearth some salient and peculiar findings about human sexual norms and values. A book on sexuality among African men and women is significantly important to correct some negative reports by foreign authors on African sexuality, the need to understudy existing peculiar traditional sexual norms and the implication of sexuality on the high incidence of unintended pregnancies and spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections including HIV/AIDS that has ravaged a significant proportion of her population. This book enriches the current data base on hidden African treasures and the practices of sexuality embedded in the traditional cultural norms and values.