In African spirituality, sexuality was believed to have different dimensions, in that, sexuality was not just expressed through intercourse because they acknowledged that, not all sexual interactions begun and ended with baby-making as the optimum intention. Dee Amanze, sexuality is 'not only' the reproductive mechanism but also the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass not just sexual intercourse but also sexual 'contacts' in all its forms.

Sexual art display was an integral part of ancient Africa too prior to colonial domination of the industry after Africa lost its powerful use of creative and sacred imagination in sex as depicted in the ancient Kemetic images depicting Fellatio.Īccording to Dr.

However, after colonization, the colonizers succeeded in redefining the concept of African sexuality by shifting its sacredness from communal to individually or religiously motivated sexual relationships, with wrongly channeled freedom of expression and imagination as put by Kiru Taye, and I quote 'Our ancestors were not lying back down and thinking of England' during coitus.Įven the sexual art display is not modern. However, since the assault of slavery and colonization, Africa has viewed certain aspects of pleasure and romance as foreign due to the imposition of foreign values, misinterpretation, and misrepresentation of the precolonial African way of life and sex.īefore European contact with Africa, human sexuality was highly valued and Africa had a well organized and consistent socialization process where the elderly members of society - like the Ssenga-who were the paternal aunties in ancient Baganda Kingdom - initiated young members of the society into the concepts and the acts of human sexuality without shame, ridicule or condemnation.

His Treasure by Kiru Taye