An invitation to decoloniality in work on (African) men and masculinities

Abstract

Seeing masculinity is, according to Raewyn Connell, ‘a place in gender relations’, what is the place accorded to males once considered property in men and masculinities studies, how are the practices of these ‘former properties’ fathomable as men’s, and what masculinities emanate from the place these ‘non-beings’ occupy? This article, which emerges from being seized with thinking on coloniality, pursues the question about the possible place/s of men once regarded as property from within masculinities studies. A distinction is introduced in the way work on men and masculinities in the wake of colonialism is undertaken, the intention being to present an invitation to decoloniality.