(East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 2023) Mugume, Collins
This article examines the portrayal of the modes of parenting in Moses Isegawa’s
Abyssinian Chronicles (2000). There are various forms of parenting according to
scholars like Diana Baumrid. I put my modes of parenting into two categories;
cruel parenting and good and caring parenting. I also argue that the community
plays a lot in parenting. Therefore, I interrogate how the community parents the
children in the text. In my discussion, I show that parenting moves and surpasses
being a role for just biological parents and moves to all members of the community
and therefore, my judgment of parenting does not just concern biological parents
but concerns all those who play a role in a child’s upbringing. I also bring out the
fact that a person’s adult behaviour is influenced by the kind of parenting he/she
faced as a child. All this is discussed as I take a close look at the narrative
techniques that Isegawa uses to depict the modes of parenting that I discuss
