Chiefly women and women’s leadership in pre-colonial southern Africa
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In intellect the women are inferior to the men, but this is doubtless attributable to the drudgery imposed on them. To feelings of self respect and sensitiveness under wrongs, characteristic of their more highly-favoured sisters in Christian lands, they are strangers. As a rule they patiently submit to their lot, unless tortured beyond endurance by despotic husbands; but their life at the best is a hard one. (Tyler 1971: 119)
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