This article examines the complex dynamics of medical discrimination and anti-LGBTIQ exclusion in Cameroon. It uses Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics and Achille Mbembe’s idea of necropolitics to demonstrate how same-sex sexuality has been framed as a moral, medical, and political issue from the colonial era to the present day. Cameroonian medical institutions are not merely providers of health care, but a powerful mechanism for perpetuating medical discrimination and social exclusion of queer individuals. The article also foregrounds the various strategies through which LGBTIQ Cameroonians navigate and contest these regimes of exclusion.
Basile Ndjio (Thu,) studied this question.