The encounter between Africans and the West in early South Africa is as much about Africans as victims as it is about their agency. While the crude power of the West to subjugate Africans for colonial service was real, it is generally over-estimated. The idea that western traditions of education, health and family life just transformed subjugated Africans needs nuancing. Using the experiences of Africans on the south-eastern coast, modern-day KwaZulu-Natal, this work suggests that the evolution of western medicine was conditioned as much by colonial Christian interests as by African...
The encounter between Africans and the West in early South Africa is as much about Africans as victims as it is about their agency. While the crude po...
