HIS102Y1 Lecture : Gender in/and colonial administration
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Take over politically but leave the land to the native people. Europeans come in and settle, taking over what was often the most fertile land. The differences in the pre-existing situation and arrangement political, social & econ and the differences in the mode of colonization is no different than the mode exploitation. We need to understand what was happening in pre-colonial societies (1st term) The african states as we know them today (with the exception of newly created states eritrea and hopefully southern sudan) are colonial states and therefore, by default, are patriarchal states. Institutions previously vibrant and necessary, now in the new setup, become less relevant and have to be reconstituted for colonial purposes. The colonial purpose is accumulation extraction of resources and exploitation of labour. Colonial states of africa largely created between 1890-1914. Africa was the last phase of european expansion. This last phase of expansion and conquest reached its climax in 1890.
