"Women and Health Imperialism" explores why and how British women medical officers (nurses, midwives, doctors, pharmacists) in the Gold Coast extended colonial power into Asante through British/western medical practices during the 1900s. The research uses oral interviews conducted with former/retired medical officers, and I examine colonial and medical records (minutes, memos, diaries, newspapers, etc.) at the offices of the national archives in Accra, Cape Coast, Kumase, Tamale (all in Ghana). The research seeks to illuminate the central role that women as well as how medicine was central in (British) colonialism and imperial expansion in Africa in the first half of the twentieth century.
