A stylolinguistic appraisal of Values, inclusion and otherness of 21st century Africa in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes
Document Type
Presentation
Location
436 Hodges / Zoom Room B
Start Date
28-3-2025 1:05 PM
End Date
28-3-2025 1:25 PM
Description
African postcolonial engaging literatures have been able to interrogate societal realities of the continent since inception, including the De purs hommes of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Previous studies anchored on the thematic thrust of homosexuality societal reaction of the Muslim Senegalese society with less attention paid to the same reality in mixed religious. This study interrogates the submissions in Sarr’s text, juxtaposing it with Christians position in Nigeria. With an interpretative design and close reading of the stylistic use of reiteration, code-mixing, and codeswitching in the text, Pavlov’s classical conditioning is applied to interpret the data drawn from interviews and questionnaires. The findings reveal the cause of exclusion, hostility, hypocrisy, and otherness in the continent of Africa is intrinsically linked to religion, value, and tradition. It also portrays the limited influence of Western education with respect to African norms and traditions to shape perceptions. Thus, homosexuality as a socially accepted concept and identity in the western world remains an ever-evolving reality and an ongoing process in Africa. This study therefore suggests that morally constructed sexual identities, like homosexuality, are perceived as moral, religious, and visual aggression in Africa. Thus, a consensus on the need for respect of human rights and choices, where no minority group is made more important than the vast majority under the guise of inclusion to ensure peaceful coexistence of everyone in society, should be adopted based on the value of the society in question
A stylolinguistic appraisal of Values, inclusion and otherness of 21st century Africa in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes
436 Hodges / Zoom Room B
African postcolonial engaging literatures have been able to interrogate societal realities of the continent since inception, including the De purs hommes of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Previous studies anchored on the thematic thrust of homosexuality societal reaction of the Muslim Senegalese society with less attention paid to the same reality in mixed religious. This study interrogates the submissions in Sarr’s text, juxtaposing it with Christians position in Nigeria. With an interpretative design and close reading of the stylistic use of reiteration, code-mixing, and codeswitching in the text, Pavlov’s classical conditioning is applied to interpret the data drawn from interviews and questionnaires. The findings reveal the cause of exclusion, hostility, hypocrisy, and otherness in the continent of Africa is intrinsically linked to religion, value, and tradition. It also portrays the limited influence of Western education with respect to African norms and traditions to shape perceptions. Thus, homosexuality as a socially accepted concept and identity in the western world remains an ever-evolving reality and an ongoing process in Africa. This study therefore suggests that morally constructed sexual identities, like homosexuality, are perceived as moral, religious, and visual aggression in Africa. Thus, a consensus on the need for respect of human rights and choices, where no minority group is made more important than the vast majority under the guise of inclusion to ensure peaceful coexistence of everyone in society, should be adopted based on the value of the society in question