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Gender, Succession and Dynastic Politics: The Saga of Senate and her son Motšoene Molapo Moshoeshoe, 1858 - 1930
Abstract
The saga depicts the web of marriage alliances used in the nineteenth century. Similarly it depicts the multiple of feuds within the Lesotho Kingdom. Indeed the story provides many other glimpses into the period of Senate's life. In the process Motšoene, who was meant to weld the nation together, became instead a cruel victim of the chimeric social experiment by Moshoeshoe I, founder of the nation and political genius.
(Review of Southern African Studies: 2000 4 (1): 19-41)