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Gender and Ethnic Relations in Sierra Leone: Temne Women in Colonial Freetown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2014

Joseph J. Bangura
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Abstract:

The article explores the role of women, particularly non-Western educated Temne market women in shaping the socio-economic history of Britain's oldest colony in colonial West Africa. It addresses the neglect of women's participation in the economy of the colony inherent in the androcentric literature. The article also highlights the cultural foundations of Temne women's activism in colonial Freetown. It argues that the role played by various subjects and actors should be fully integrated in the historical literature of the Sierra Leone colony.

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History in Africa , Volume 39 , 2012 , pp. 267 - 292
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2012

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