African Marriage: An Alliance Between Kin Groups
between husbands and wives; the instability had a direct effect on how Africans raised children and passed on cultural customs and values. In post-colonial Africa, people are still coming to grip with new cultural values and ideals for marriage and raising children.
For Further Reading:
Berger, Iris and E. Frances White. Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Restoring Women to History series. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1999.
Davison, Jean. Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995. 2nd edition. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996.
Schmidt, Elizabeth. Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1992.
White, Luise. The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
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