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Restoring African Women To History: A History Of Pre-Colonial East African Baganda Women, Maria Matovu
Restoring African Women To History: A History Of Pre-Colonial East African Baganda Women, Maria Matovu
History
In his narrative, colonial administrator Harold Ingram describes the perspective that many missionaries and colonial executives held towards the African peoples. The notion of the ‘White man’s burden’ to save the world from uncivilized, and animalistic customs coupled with the theory of Africa as the Dark Continent, is one of the main reasons why early explorers and missionaries placed women in subordinate positions. This move thus overlooked the critical significance of contributions that pre-colonial African women contributed to the political, economic and social developmental structure in African communities. Missionary C.W. Hattersley confirmed the same notion towards pre-colonial Baganda women when …
John Garang And Sudanism: A Peculiar And Resilient Nationalism, Matthew J. Delaney
John Garang And Sudanism: A Peculiar And Resilient Nationalism, Matthew J. Delaney
History
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