<font>Ukubhinya</font>: Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946–1956

Benson, Koni; Chadya, Joyce M.

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“…2 Younger scholars are exploring crimes committed both against and by African women. 3 Partly because witchcraft accusations, rape and domestic violence would not have come to the Native Commissioner's courts at all unless African women had taken them there, these flawed records nevertheless reveal female agency. As Koni Benson and Joyce Chadya write in their forthcoming article about violence against African women in Bulawayo during the 1940s and 1950s:…”

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The Narratives and Counter-narratives of Zimbabwean Asylum: female voices

Ranger¹

2005

Third World Quarterly

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Social historians of Africa in general, and of Zimbabwe in particular, have learnt how to make use of colonial criminal court records by reading them both with and against the grain. Now historians of Zimbabwe are being presented with another sort of court record. Many of them are on the Britain Zimbabwe Society panel of 'expert' assessors of Zimbabwean asylum appeals. They see the narrative statements of asylum-seekers and the counter-narratives of the Home Office refusal letters. This paper argues that read both with and against the grain these case records offer a revealing way into postcolonial interactions. For the Home Office, as for the British Government in general, we live in a postcolonial world in which memories, legacies and responsibilities of colonialism have become redundant. Meanwhile asylum-seekers reassert the image of imperial Britain as a country of justice and fairplay. Taking the cases of Zimbabwean women asylum-seekers the paper reveals the dialogue between these two perceptions of the world and the callous injustice which it produces.

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The Narratives and Counter-narratives of Zimbabwean Asylum: female voices

Ranger¹

2005

Third World Quarterly

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“…Hamilton et al . 2002; Benson and Chadya 2005: 587–91; Burrill et al . 2010: 18–20; Hoffmann and Mnyaka 2015; Namhila 2015).…”

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Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Herzog,

Tischler

2024

Africa

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“…Kanogo (2005:55-62) relates some of the precolonial punishments for rape in Kenya, ideas of "curative rape," as well as how the Supreme Court dealt with those few rape cases that came before it. Only Benson and Chadya (2005) have focused specifically on the subject with a review of issues surrounding rape cases in white magistrate courts in Bulawayo (Southern Rhodesia) in the 1940s and 1950s. Their sources, however-English-language transcripts from whiterun courts-are not particularly revealing on the subject of African ideas about rape.…”

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Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s–1960s

Shadle¹

2008

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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This article examines the history of rape prosecutions in the African courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, from the 1940s through the first years of independence. Drawing on transcripts from African courts, it demonstrates that Gusii court elders were quite sympathetic to women who lodged rape claims. Elders handed down stiff punishments to rapists, were willing to entertain a wide definition of "indecent assault," and did not require the extensive evidence of rape so commonly demanded by judges in Western courts (and in British courts in Kenya). Perhaps most surprisingly, men who admitted to having had sex but claimed it had been consensual were forced to prove their claims. This article advances both the historical study of rape in Africa and suggests that we reassess-or at least reserve judgment-on the nature of sexual violence in the non-West.

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Ukubhinya: Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946–1956

Cited by 20 publications

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The Narratives and Counter-narratives of Zimbabwean Asylum: female voices

The Narratives and Counter-narratives of Zimbabwean Asylum: female voices

Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s–1960s

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