Colonial anti-settler warfare shifted East-Central African gender power to men.

Evidence

Likewise, matriarchy was viewed as a feasible form of socio-political power and advancement in the founding of East-Central Africa from 100 BCE to 1900 CE, a dynamic later tilted by colonialism when men rose up to war against the settlers, thus giving them power and dominance over women on that basis. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 982

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the argument in this same chapter that colonial capitalism eroded African women’s value as an ideological weapon.
• QUESTION: The claimed causal chain (armed resistance to settlers fathers male dominance) needs more than assertion; what mechanisms operated?