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Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule

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 colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing 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-Baté, enabling it to.

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  • "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 colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing 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-Baté, enabling it to."@en

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  • "Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule"@en
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  • "Our new husbands are here households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule"@en
  • "Our new husbands are here households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule"
  • "Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a west African state from the slave trade to colonial rule"

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