Our Family is Our Autonomy

To erase all autonomy from the people, the colonizer had to remove any need for the role of husband and father. Institutions were created to not only allow the government to fill the role of family leader but also of family provider. By supplanting the cultural monument of family and the resource that it can be within traditional communities, they were able to infect women with this materialistic thinking. To gain some independence from their position with men and enter a new value system, women had to give all of their submission to the colonial structure; a third party that could provide them resources while guaranteeing their equality.