Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City

A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in theHausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic lawrequires strict separation of the sexes and different rules ofbehavior for women and men in virtually every facet of life.

• The first ethnographic study of sexual minorities in Africa,and one of very few works on sexual minorities in the Islamicworld
• Engagingly written, combining innovative, ethnographicnarrative with analyses of sociolinguistic transcripts, historicaltexts, and popular media, including video, film, newspapers, andsong-poetry
• Analyzes the social experiences and expressive culture of‘yan daudu (feminine men in Nigerian Hausaland) in relationto local, national, and global debates over gender and sexuality atthe turn of the twenty-first century
• Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of"Outstanding Monograph"