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A History Of Naked Protests By African Women [photos] by Mcwrath02: 3:24pm On May 27, 2015
The African perception of nudity pre-colonisation is understood to have been more liberal than today’s Western view. Post colonisation however, majority of countries went through a 180 degree shift and now sit on the extreme right of the religious view.
Western and Eastern colonialists in Africa saw the undressed black woman as a symptom of the backwardness of the African culture and labeled her naked body as grotesque. Through clothing, imperial forces sought to edify black women, and confirm their own superiority by branding these women in their own clothing and removing substantiation of their primitive tradition. To this day, tabloid Western media reports of Africa will often picture a topless African woman with drooping breasts accompanied by her naked starving child to reiterate the ‘backwardness’ present in African culture.
In 2001, scientists working on a site in Kenya with a view to expanding the Tana River reserve there were met with over 300 naked women who protested their action. The report outlines how female public nudity is considered an ‘ill-omen’ in Kenyan communities. However it is important to note that this applies only in context, when the gesture is made only for the effect of the onlookers.

In standing up against settling colonial authority and their own indigenous men who were reveling in the euphoria of their new found power, African women embraced the goddess ideology of the woman and the giver and taker of life. In action, this developed into defense mechanisms such as flashing and deliberate public nudity, which would send out a bad omen to the aggressor.
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