This book will address and uncover the role of US Christian Right ¿pro-family¿ groups in
mobilizing counter-movements against LGBTIQ+ human rights reproductive justice and sexuality
education in Africa and will intervene in the tendency to exceptionalize Africa as a
¿homophobic continent¿ following the surge in homophobic and transphobic legislation hate
speech and violence in recent years. The author employs the lens of decoloniality in an
intersectional manner to unpack the multiple forms of hierarchy and oppression that the concept
of the nuclear family has historically worked to naturalize in the interests of capitalism
Christo-normativity and a world system dominated and controlled by the global north.
Proceeding from the historical geopolitical context informing nuclear family idealization the
analysis then presents a critical discussion of contemporary pro-family discourses showing
that pro-family narratives that universalize and politicize the notion of ¿family¿ are not only
constituting agendas that erode LGBTIQ+ and reproductive justice but reinforce an
international order that privileges Euro-American interests despite pro-family claims that
their agendas are anti-imperialist. This book will be of interest to scholars in gender
sexuality and queer studies postcolonial studies and international relations.
