Zumthurm, Tizian (Author)
This case study provides insights into how a hospital in colonial Africa was provisioned with food, while it also sheds light onto daily life in a colonial situation. The article connects the rich sources from the Albert Schweitzer Hospital with the social history of Gabon. It demonstrates how the institution mirrors the food problems of the territory by investigating what doctors, nurses, visitors, and patients considered an ideal diet and by examining what efforts and practices were upheld to meet these ideals. In order to illuminate these issues, the paper sketches out how different foods (plantains, rice, palm-oil, fruit, and fish) were acquired or produced on site and how these processes changed over time. In this manner, practices and discourses on nutrition and health exemplify the inauthenticity of the colonial situation and reveal how economic priorities influenced food supply in colonial Gabon.
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