'I Would Not Bear My Mother's Name As Surname': Colonial Anthroponomy and Gender Identity in a Former Slave-Trading Society
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By virtue of being an aspect of language, naming expresses power and social change. From this perspective, systems of surnames in precolonial Africa and their transformation during the colonial period is a narrative of power relations in precolonial Africa on the one hand and between empire and its colonial/postcolonial subjects on the other.
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