The topic of men and masculinities in Africa is only a few years old (measured in published material) but is part of a much bigger and internationally significant focus on men which has gathered tremendous pace in the last few years. Some of the emerging scholarship on masculinities in Africa includes Robert Morrell's pioneering work, Changing Men in Southern Africa (2001), an analysis of different forms of masculinity that foregrounds such categories as race and class during the years of political change from apartheid to democracy in South Africa. The next major work in this growing field, Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, edited by Lisa Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher (2003), turns its historical lens on men and masculinities in sub-Saharan Africa. Co-edited with Robert Morrell, my volume African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present (2005), located more in men's studies than in history, takes on a continent-wide focus and brings the story of men and masculinities in Africa to the present by addressing contemporary issues such as AIDS and globalization. In Heterosexual Africa?: The history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS (2008), Marc Epprecht explores – and exposes – the various processes in academia and in public policy circles that have helped to construct a singular heterosexual identity for the entire continent.