Our New Husbands Are Here by Emily Lynn Osborn


ISBN
9780821419830
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Dimensions
152 x 229mm

In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonisation? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analysing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa (in present-day Guinea-Conakry), Osborn shows that the household, and women within it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Bate, enabling it to endure the predations of the transatlantic slave trade and become a major trading centre in the nineteenth century. But French colonisation introduced a radical new method of statecraft to the region, one that separated the household from the state and depoliticised women's domestic roles. This book will be of interest to scholars of politics, gender, the household, slavery, and Islam in African history.
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