Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa

Saidi, Christine

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“…This then became the basis of the colonial policy of Indirect Rule, and informed the British view that Africans who were educated and lived in towns were aberrant or atypical, hence "detribalized"[Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983), Mamdani (1996)]. Or, the colonial assumption that African societies, were patriarchal like European societies, and that women were subordinate with no political role[Chanock (1985),Saidi (2010)]. Constructs were artificial or reifications that gained significant force through operationalization.…”

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa: Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications

Akyeampong¹,

Fofack²

2013

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa: Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications

Akyeampong¹,

Fofack²

2013

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…By focusing on dense social facts, such as gender, belonging, motherhood, slavery, or wealth and poverty, in the context of such genetic classifications, the play of contingency emerges in such overviews. 137 This underscores the need to theorize material and spatial patternings made by people using languages from more than one language group. 138 That is, we need historical imagination receptive to the idea that archaeological evidence of material culture and spatial patterns were produced by groups of people who spoke more than one language (of the same family, or not) and by people who spoke different languages (of the same family, or not) but enjoyed enough multilingual competency to collaborate on technological or other projects.…”

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Moving Histories: Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities

Grollemund

Schoenbrun²,

Vansina

2023

J. Afr. Hist.

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This essay interprets a classification of Africa's Bantu languages which used statistical tools guided by assumptions about farming and its chronology to analyze fresh vocabulary evidence. It shows a peeling movement from Cameroon's grassfields, into southern Cameroon, then along a savanna corridor through West Central Africa's rainforests, into the Savannahs, then to Southern Africa, the Great Lakes, and Indian Ocean coast. The clear sequence of movement masks methodological and historical factors. Language death, multilingualism, and the limits of vocabulary evidence restrain the classification's authority. ‘Transformations’ from food collecting to food producing or from no metals to full engagement with metals were mutable, unfolded at different speeds, and involved interactions with firstcomers. In Central Africa, Bantu speakers were often the first farmers and metal-users in the region but elsewhere they were commonly neither. Their arrivals did not immediately displace firstcomers. Computational methods can accommodate many of these issues.

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“…These critiques inspired a trend of scaling down the geographical and temporal scope of research agendas that has persisted since the 1990s. Archaeologists took a more regional approach to social and political change and historians used the comparative method both to illuminate the history of speakers of subbranches of Bantu and to link those histories to later precolonial and colonial stories rooted in oral traditions and personal testimony (Schmidt 1978(Schmidt , 2006McIntosh & McIntosh 1980;Vansina 1990Vansina , 2004Ehret 1998;Schoenbrun 1998;Kusimba 1999;McIntosh 1999;Horton & Middleton 2000;Pikirayi 2001;Stahl 2001;Klieman 2003;Shetler 2007;Gonzales 2009;Stephens 2009, forthcoming;Saidi 2010).…”

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