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Consider that in pre-colonial Africa, things were inverted with women being deeply involved in the day to day running of many tribes and societies and yet the situation is similar- subversion of the native culture from an external force who, in their contempt for that culture, seek to change and mould it into their idealised image.
"Pre-colonial Africa saw a wide span of relations between women and politics, ranging from severely constrained to empowering. Under colonial rule, however, matrilinear kinship systems and female political authority were eliminated in the name of ‘progress’ all over the continent (e.g. Coquery-Vidrovitch, 1997; Parpart, 1988; Sacks, 1982). Women were excluded from the colonial state structures, even in systems of indirect colonial rule which recognized the authority of male chiefs at the local level."