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The Cameroonian Women Who Fought For Independence With Their Nakedness
Aug 6, 2020
It has long been documented that women played an important role in the anti-colonial efforts of Africans against their Western colonizers. Although we often celebrate individual men like Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba for their sacrifice in the anti-colonial struggle, we often cannot point to a single woman. But this does not mean that they did not exist.
In fact, women consistently fought off colonizers who sought to impose unfair rules in their providence. Many times, they did so as a collective. Moreover, they organized and acted powerfully when African men had accepted the laws administrated by the colonizers. Take the story of the Kom women’s rebellion in Northern Cameroon as an example.
The Kom women are a tribal group in the Bamenda Grassfields of North-West Cameroon. Between 1958 and 1961, they launched a revolt known as the Anlu Rebellion, in response to the colonial administration’s imposition of vertical contour farming.
Colonial administrators had won over the men. Yet, the women believed it restricted the traditional methods favored by rural women, also, factors such as the introduction of Christian doctrine and other social changes orchestrated by the Western-educated elite exacerbated social segregation and attacks on tradition and customs, adding more fuel to the fire of the Kom women’s grievances.
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