Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial AfricaDomestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses kin based violence, marriage based violence, gender based violence, as well as violence between patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. As a