"THIS MAN IS MY WIFE": THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PROHIBITION ACT OF 2014 IN NIGERIA. Issue 1 (April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oladosu-Uthman, Habibat
• Is Part Of: Journal of law and religion. Volume 36:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 92
• Page End: 104
• Publication Date: 2021-04
• Subjects: same-sex marriage, -- Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, -- human rights, -- homosexual; Religion and law -- Periodicals; 344.096
• DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2020.53
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0748-0814

Abstract

Abstract: The increased visibility of same-sex relationships and the call for same-sex marriages have been particular challenges to the traditional marriage system in Africa in the contemporary period. While some critics have argued, erroneously, that same-sex relationships were completely unknown to the African continent until the advent of Western modernity, others have suggested that the practices speak to a greater malaise confronting African societies. Nigeria is not an exception in this case. In light of these trends, this article examines the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, which was promulgated by the Nigerian government in 2014 and has since led to infractions upon the human rights of citizens in same-sex relationships. The article examines these developments around same-sex relationships in the context of wider social and economic challenges to the traditional marriage institution in Nigeria.