Emancipation des femmes Madar: L'impact du projet administratif et missionnaire sur une societe africaine (1900-1960)

Considering the civil authorities’ and missionaries’ project of the emancipation of Madare women in the west of Burkina Faso between 1900 and 1960, this work deals successively with the place of women in the pre-colonial village community, the beginning of contacts with European civilization, the project’s initiators’ assessment of the women’s living conditions and their willingness to change them, the means and methods used to this end and the limitations of the project at the time of independence in 1960. This work, written by a historian who is a member of the ethnic community, is a documentary reference work with multiple entries and an index. It should be of interest to Africans concerned with the socio-political evolution of their continent, researchers interested in the history of missions and the African churches and anyone concerned with the question of women in modern societies.