Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

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Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self—identified effeminate men—known in local parlance as sasso—residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self—making, creating an identity that...