Women in Africa

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…the colonial government' (Allman, 212). In this particular instance, women were able to 'shape actively the emerging colonial world' (Allman, 213). The only thing that the chiefs succeeded in doing was making the arrest of women a profit-making venture; because every time a woman was released from jail, she or the man had to pay the fine. Unfortunately, this was not their goal, so they were ultimately unsuccessful. Women's productive and reproductive rights remained under their control.