Editing Queer studies (section)

=== South Africa ===
On the African continent, South Africa has been setting the trend of developing queer studies. This is partly due to the country's constitutional framework, which explicitly protects against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. One of the leading South African queer studies scholars [[Zethu Matebeni]], who is an activist, writer, documentary film maker, and academic, working as Professor and South Africa Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies at the [[University of Fort Hare]]. She curated the volume ''Reclaiming Afrikan: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities'' (2014) and co-edited the book ''Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism'' (2018).