Week 10

Required Reading (on Talis)

Matthew Carotenuto. Repatriation in Colonial Kenya: African Institutions and Gendered Violence. The International Journal of African Historical Studies

Jean Allman. Rounding up Spinsters: Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante. The Journal of African History

Derek R. Peterson. Ethnic patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent, c. 1935-1972. Read Chapter 7. The Cultural Work of Moral Reform in Northwestern Tanganyika

Further Readings (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

What role did Ethnicity play in urban Africa?

How did the colonial conception of the city affect gender relations?