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Population Politics in the Tropics offers a groundbreaking analysis of how demographic concerns drove health policy and colonial administration in Angola during the twentieth century. Samuël Coghe traces the complex relationship between population statistics, disease management, and imperial governance, revealing how colonizers used demographic knowledge to justify and implement control mechanisms over colonized populations.
The book demonstrates that population politics were not merely administrative concerns but central to how European powers legitimized their rule in Africa. Through examination of health interventions, demographic surveys, and transimperial knowledge networks, Coghe shows how scientific approaches to population management became tools of colonial domination, while also documenting resistance and alternative understandings of health and community among Angolan populations.
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