Required Reading (on Talis)

Carol Summers. Radical Rudeness: Ugandan Social Critiques in the 1940s Journal of Social History

Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, S. Kingsley Kent, Susan Kingsley Kent The Women's War of 1929 Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria: Read the Introduction pp.1-14

Carol Summers. All the Kabaka's wives: Marital claims in Buganda's 1953–5 Kabaka crisis, The Journal of African History

Further Reading on Talis

Seminar Questions

What cultural tools did marginalised people employ to articulate their experience of colonialism?

What does ‘everyday forms of resistance’ or ‘weapons of the weak' (Jame Scott) reveal about the nature of power, about gender and generational relations in colonial Africa?