Κοινωνικές

Since the mid-1980s, academic and public discourses have depicted African masculinity as both precarious and predatory. Economic insecurity, urbanisation, shifting gender norms and growing gender parity have accompanied claims that African masculinity is ‘in crisis’. More recently, however, new stories of urban men embracing responsible fatherhood, condemning intimate partner violence and demanding homosexual rights have emerged as exemplars of progressive responsibility.