An uncertain age : the politics of manhood in Kenya /
In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans' contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2017
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| Series: | New African histories series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- An "arbitrary line" : male initiation and colonial authority
- "I wanted to make something of myself" : migration, wage labor, and earning an age
- "I saw a paradise" : growing up on the streets of a colonial city
- "The old way ... the only way" : corporal punishment and a community of disciplinarians
- "Jaili Watoto," the children's jail : reforming the young male offender
- "In the past, the country belonged to the young men" : freedom fighting at an uncertain age
- "We're the Wamumu boys" : defeating Mau Mau, creating youth at the end of empire
- "An army without guns" : the National Youth Service and age in Kenyatta's Kenya
- Conclusion : #gocutmyhusband.
