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They were treated as women and were permitted to marry other men.ĭans l’ancien royaume du Dahomey, les femmes pouvaient être des soldats (ci-dessus) et les femmes âgées pouvaient épouser des femmes plus jeunes, selon l’anthropologue Melville Herkovits. Similarly in Uganda, amongst the Nilotico Lango, men who assumed ‘‘alternative gender status” were known as mukodo dako.Amongst Bantu-speaking Pouhain farmers (Bene, Bulu, Fang, Jaunde, Mokuk, Mwele, Ntum and Pangwe) in present-day Gabon and Cameroon, homosexual intercourse was known as bian nkû”ma– a medicine for wealth which was transmitted through sexual activity between men.The Azande of the Northern Congo ‘‘routinely married” younger men who functioned as temporary wives – a practise that was institutionalised to such an extent that warriors would pay ‘‘brideprice” to the young man”s parents. In traditional, monarchical Zande culture, anthropological records described homosexuality as ‘‘indigenous”.Labat, documented the Ganga-Ya-Chibanda, presiding priest of the Giagues, a group within the Congo kingdom, who routinely cross-dressed and was referred to as ‘‘grandmother”.