The moment of independence from colonialism in Africa was a time of overwhelming emotion for the liberated subject. The attainment of political freedom affected whole facets of the native African populations in extreme and different ways. Socially, culturally and economically, formerly colonized and highly policed people suddenly found themselves free to do as they wished in matters pertaining to their daily lives. Sexuality, like all other aspects of the lives of the colonized peoples, had been under surveillance and control by the colonizers, a practice of ‘disciplining’ the body of the African male (see Cooper 2003; White 2003). Social control of the lives of African men and women began at home and ended at home. In most colonial African cities the African dwellers were restricted to single room housing which implied that most men who worked and lived in these cities remained unmarried for long stretches of time, had no access to the opposite sex or were forced to leave their wives in the countryside most of the time. The practice of enforced ‘bachelorhood’ also contributed to the control of the growth of African population within urban areas. Even illicit sexual relations between unmarried African couples or prostitution were highly monitored or outlawed outright in some places. Wherever institutionalized prostitution happened, in Nairobi for instance, it was mainly in the service of members of the privileged European settler and administrative community, as in the case of officially unacknowledged presence of African women prostitutes in Nairobi in the twentieth century who served the needs of the colonial White army officers (White 1990).