90 Second Narratives

Motherhood and Adoption in Precolonial Uganda

September 21, 2020 Sky Michael Johnston Season 3 Episode 6
90 Second Narratives
Motherhood and Adoption in Precolonial Uganda
Show Notes

“Motherhood took different forms in the communities that lived on the north-west shores of Lake Victoria and in its littoral from around the eighth century…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Rhiannon Stephens.

For further reading:
A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900 by Rhiannon Stephens (Cambridge University Press, 2013)