Thesis: Negative Effects of Colonization on Africa

Sample Thesis Paper

While colonization negatively affected each of the above-stated vehicles that women of pre-colonial Africa could employ to achieve varying degrees of social mobility, as afforded to them by the structure of the different societies that they inhabited and their social standing therein, each of these methods had been successfully used by women, both free and slave, to obtain a greater influence in their respective societies.  This influence was more often indirect, than direct, but allowed these women to have a greater say in matters that affected them. 

The strategies often employed were the confluence of a number of strategies, and were more often than not a result of the patriarchal or matriarchal leanings of the society that they found themselves in, the conditions prevalent at that time, their status as a free woman or a slave, their social standing in their community, and the value placed on their contribution to the economic wellbeing of the family that they married into.       

 While there was no failsafe method available to these women to achieve their goals varying between freedom for a slave women to a greater social influence for a woman of higher social rank, the strategies employed by them carried their individual pros and cons and these were duly taken into account when deciding upon a course of action.  We have already seen how colonialism adversely affected these avenues of social progress open to the female population of the African continent and, therefore, it is from the pre-colonial aspect that we shall judge these strategies as successful or otherwise. While colonization negatively affected each of the above-stated vehicles that women of pre-colonial Africa could employ to achieve varying degrees of social mobility, as afforded to them by the structure of the different societies that they inhabited and their social standing therein, each of these methods had been successfully used by women, both free and slave, to obtain a greater influence in their respective societies.  This influence was more often indirect, than direct, but allowed these women to have a greater say in matters that affected them. The strategies often employed were the confluence of a number of strategies, and were more often than not a result of the patriarchal or matriarchal leanings of the society that they found themselves in, the conditions prevalent at that time, their status as a free woman or a slave, their social standing in their community, and the value placed on their contribution to the economic wellbeing of the family that they married into.       

 While there was no failsafe method available to these women to achieve their goals varying between freedom for a slave women to a greater social influence for a woman of higher social rank, the strategies employed by them carried their individual pros and cons and these were duly taken into account when deciding upon a course of action.  We have already seen how colonialism adversely affected these avenues of social progress open to the female population of the African continent and, therefore, it is from the pre-colonial aspect that we shall judge these strategies as successful or otherwise.

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