Colonial memory, gender and social justice

This book was born of an urgent need to revisit the colonial history of Cameroon from a perspective that has been marginalized for too long: that of black women. During the German colonial period (1884-1916), many women were victims of sexual violence, economic exploitation and multiple forms of dehumanization, which were at the very heart of the colonial project. This work is an act of remembrance, an attempt to bring these women out of oblivion, not to freeze them in their status as victims, but to restore the complexity of their experiences, between suffering, resilience and survival strategies. The aim is also to demonstrate how the legacy of this colonial exploitation is perpetuated today through certain forms of social injustice and gender discrimination, notably in contemporary social protection policies.