What is it about?
This paper is about how the world is based on fakeness, deception and mendacity. It is about how the colonised people are persuaded and forced to focus on negligible issues in their lives while the imperialists focus on matters that are more consequential and substantial, including ownership of resources. The colonised people are forced to focus primarily or entirely on matters of sexuality and sexual orientation while the imperialists focus on ownership and control of natural resources within the colonised territories. In this way the attention of the colonised people is conveniently diverted to matters of sexuality while the imperialists grab the natural resources belonging to the colonised people.
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Why is it important?
This paper is timely because it deals with topical matters of sexual orientations, including queer, LGBTQ sexuality which are hot in countries including Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya etc where it is criminal to be LGBTQ or where LGBTQ is criminalised. Responding to the criminalisation of LGBTQ, the USA, Europe and the UN are condemning, and threatening, with sanctions, African legislatures for overwhelmingly voting for criminalising, and for not legalising, the sexual orientations of queers. Besides, the ongoing Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine is partly about defending Russian culture from Western forces that are forcing Russians to adopt LGBTQ: President Vladimir Putin is arguing that LGBTQ rights erode original, traditional and authentic Russian culture - this is why LGBTQ are criminalised in Russia. This paper argues that Africans do not only have sexual orientation but they also have what it calls land orientation. Therefore the USA, Europe and the UN must not only focus on condemning those that criminalise sexual orientations; they must also condemn and sanction those that prevent and prohibit Africans from exercising and practising their land orientations. It does not make sense to grant Africans freedom of sexual orientation but prohibit the Africans from exercising their freedom to recover land that was stolen during colonialism. Thus, the paper juxtaposes sexual orientations to land orientations among Africans and it asks the question why Africans are being coerced by the USA, Europe and UN to take one and not the other of the orientations.
Perspectives
This paper is very important for scholars and thinkers in matters of sexuality, ideology, politics, government studies, policy studies, gender studies, land studies, natural resources studies, legal studies including jurisprudence, policing and international relations. The paper is also important for scholars and thinkers in science and technology studies, neuroscience and bioethics because it also deals with topical debates on microchipping humans, nanotechnology, brainnet, neuronet, nanovaccines and so on in so far as they impact on the minds of the colonised peoples.
Artwell Nhemachena
University of Namibia
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This page is a summary of: Even Chameleons Stalk Their Prey: Rinonyenga Rinohwarara Rinosumudza Musoro Rawana, Twenty-First Century Imperial Sleights of Hand and the Recolonisation of Africa, The African Review, February 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1821889x-bja10050.
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