A group of women in Kenya and Ghana are reeling after intimate videos of them were shared online by a Russian blogger without their consent. The footage surfaced in February, covertly filmed using a pair of sunglasses fitted with a camera.1
The framing was deliberate: African women as sexually available, their bodies a spectacle for public consumption. What followed, in the media and public discourse, was a familiar script of outrage first directed at women themselves who were labelled ‘loose’ and ‘accepting any white man’, before eventually turning on the perpetrator.
