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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Coiffure de Femme Peul", Cameroon #ethnographxt

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Types and Costumes of Women from Fouta-Djalon" (Guinea) Detail: Queen Mariam by Arsène Lambert, c. 1860. #ethnographxt

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 15/09/2026

What can a seized gold necklace tell us about women’s economic independence in Senegal? In #AHAPerspectives, summer columnist Becca Aponte traces how a dispute in colonial Senegal reveals the ways jewelry served as collateral, personal credit, and a marker of women’s social and economic status.

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Small Property, Big Meanings – AHA

A dispute over 11 francs and a stolen gold necklace in 1906 offers a vital insight into the economic world women in Senegal created for themselves.

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Becca Aponte @baponte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Who doesn’t love some good old drama in the court records?! Thank you #AHAPerspectives for having me and sharing this work on ordinary women’s wearable wealth in colonial Senegal!

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Becca Aponte @baponte.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gold jewelry - and gold plating like this - are windows into worlds of credit and capital that eluded colonial and male authority at the turn of the 20th c. They remain a prized possession among women today, who line up at jewelers to admire and buy. As do I 💛 simply magnificent!

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Becca Aponte @baponte.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Such a fun piece to write: starting with Dakar, it is time to think about informality as more than an urban and contemporary phenomenon 🤓 Be on the look out for part 2 on small forms of property and their bigger meanings for women in the countryside of colonial Senegal.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#AHAPerspectives summer columnist @baponte.bsky.social connects the women street vendors she sees in Dakar today with a longer history of economics and colonialism in Senegal. Read more in her first piece: 🗃️

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Capitalism at Ground Level – AHA

A graduate student explores how ordinary Africans transformed Dakar into a cosmopolitan city through informal economies beyond colonial control.

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