Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the African Atlantic

He examines how changing gender identities between 1750 and 1920 in the West African Bight of Biafra defined the 1.6 million slaves exported to the Americas. Mbah draws on European colonial and missionary archives, oral interviews, participatory ethnography, and film documentation of material culture and rituals to reveal the shift from a pre-colonial period characterized by female breadwinners and powerful female political institutions, to a colonial period of male political domination.