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This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films, advertising, and images, thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject. Arguing that sex jokes are used to perform a number of functions in African society, the contributors show how they can be used to perpetuate violence against women, construct spaces, resist oppression, create conformity, build affiliations, and subvert morality. They consider jokes from Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zambia in a range of forms including queer sex jokes, rape jokes, performed sex jokes, gendered humour, and resistance sex humour. The book places particular emphasis on the impact of new media platforms and the anonymity they provide. Providing an important analysis of this tabooed but culturally important facet of everyday life, this book will be of interest to scholars of African culture and society from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, and sociology.

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"""Sexual Humour in Africa is another major contribution to the growing body of research on jokes, humor, and comedy in Africa. It offers a useful introduction to the varied forms of sexual humor in the popular, literary and performance cultures of Africa, and uncovers longstanding traditions of sexual humor across the African continent. Together the chapters in this volume shed light on the intersections between sexual humor, and prevailing notions of femininity and masculinity in contemporary Africa."" Moradewun Adejunmobi, Professor, African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis"

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Ignatius Chukwumah is professor of African literature and popular culture at Federal University, Wukari, Nigeria.

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