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This article focuses on the Afrocentric pan-Africanist associations based in France, which, in line with sexual nationalisms, place the question of male/female relations and sexuality at the heart of their political project to decolonize the identity of the “black people”. By analysing the genealogy of these ideas and discourses, this article shows that the main ideological matrix of these activists’ anti-gender position is Afrocentrism. It also underlines how paradoxically they are inspired by ideas that conflict with their objectives such as feminism, Christianity, and colonial ideology, and thus contribute to the Afrocentrism transformation.