CAS Seminar: Dr Sarah Longair: 'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'
Contesting Compliance: Tales of ‘Women's Empowerment’ from Nineteenth-Century SW Nigeria
enJanuary 27, 2015
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About this Episode
Talk by Professor Andrea Cornwall (Universit of Sussex). Part of the CAS seminar series 'Gender in Africa', Lent Term 2015.
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