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XII. MOTHERS OF MEN
“Only one chapter—and that one at the close—about African women.” But is this really so? Look through the previous pages and note the part played by the wives and mothers of men. Bishop Crowther rediscovering Afala his mother, happy in fifty years of wedded life with Susan his wife; Tshaka with his mother Nandi who never failed her son; Moshesh taking the first missionary to visit his favorite wife Mamahoto; Khama, from the beauty of his home life, first with Ma-Bessie and then with Semane, learning to extend to other women a brother’s protecting care; John Tengo Jabavu, with Mary Mpindi his hard-working mother, and Elda his devoted wife; James Kwegyir Aggrey, with a home in two continents, believer in African woman-hood—through all of these, women have already crossed and recrossed our stage. Now the time has come when the women of Africa step into the center to be studied more at leisure and appreciated to the full.
