Mapping discrimination: gender, race and disadvantage in French West Africa
Abstract
Looks at how France colonized and claimed an area of Africa 14 times its own size, between 1830 and 1910 – which was subsequently split into French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa. Has a deep insight into the forming and investigation of the areas by one woman officer from the French West African Education Department. Concludes that Savineau’s study is a documentary of quite extraordinary value in the study of “other” races over 13,000 kilometres, reporting on “The condition of the African Woman and the Family”, before the Second World War.
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Citation
Griffiths, C. (2003), "Mapping discrimination: gender, race and disadvantage in French West Africa", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 22 No. 5, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610150310787450
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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