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In the Islamic, Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria ‘yan daudu are men who are said to talk and act “like women” and who sometimes participate in affective, sexual, and economic relationships with men who are ostensibly masculine. This chapter discusses the ways ‘yan daudu narrate these relationships. It pays particular attention to the ways they use grammatical and rhetorical resources to claim, attribute, mitigate, or deny different kinds of agency with respect to sex and economic exchange. These narratives “ambiguate” hegemonic discourses of gender, sexuality, wealth and power in ways that are at once risky and enjoyable. For social theorists committed to “undoing” gender, the ambiguity of ‘yan daudu’s intentions and achievements might be frustrating, but ‘yan daudu manage to experience their own combinations of frustration, pleasure, and hope—and that may be agency enough.
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