Mother is gold father is glass : gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town Prologue. Mother is gold father is glass : power and vulnerability in Atlantic Africa Founding fathers and metaphorical mothers: history myth and the making of a kingdom How kings lost their mothers: politics of the Atlantic slave trade Giving away Kétus secret: wives on the eve of war Where women really matter : the queens of Kétu and the challenge to French imperialism Without family there is no true colonization : perspectives on marriage The opening of the eyes : the politics of manhood on the eve of independence Mothers and fathers of an Atlantic world Epilogue. A rebirth of public mothers and kings