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Women's agricultural production and political action in the Cameroon Grassfields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Susan Diduk
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On that day if you had seen me, you would not have known me; dirty cap with feathers and a long stick, since doesn't fear send a walking stick forward? I put dirty clothes on and I looked like ‘massa’ [my husband]. I even wore plant leaves around my neck so as to make all men [people] put their minds to this [problem].…Today fombuen doesn't march because there isn't trouble but if cows come again they will join! Women know the sound of the whistle and they will leave their cooking pots on the fire. [A Kedjom Ketinguh woman who participated in the 1958 fombuen march to Bamenda]

Résumé

La production agricole et l'action politique des femmes dans les prairies du Cameroun

L'article examine les mobilisations des femmes dans les fiefs de Kedjom Keku et de Kedjom Ketinguh à la fin des années 50. Plutôt que de considérer ces mouvements comme féministes, l'article suggère qu'ils s'expliquent le mieux en tant que réactions au développement des politiques économiques au cours de la période de mandat britannique et à l'élargissement des politiques nationalistes de l'époque.

Type
Women's responses to wrongs
Information
Africa , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 338 - 355
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1989

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