Godfried Asante is Assistant Professor of Communication, Difference, and Disparities at San Diego State University, USA. He has a Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication from the University of New Mexico. Godfried’s primary areas of research include the politics of LGBT rights in West Africa, transnational sexual politics, and Black identity politics. He has published essays in journals including Howard Journal of Communications, Communication Theory, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and Women’s Studies in Communication.