A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900 /
Rhiannon Stephens.
- Cambridge ; New York : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- xv, 223 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- African studies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-210) and index.
Writing precolonial African history: words and other historical frag ments -- Motherhood in north Nyanza, eighth through the twelfth century -- Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of motherhood in early B uganda and south Kyoga, thirteenth through the fifteenth century -- Mot hering the kingdoms: Buganda, Busoga and east Kyoga, sixteenth through the eighteenth century -- Contesting the authority of mothers in the ei ghteenth and nineteenth centuries.