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An uncertain age : the politics of manhood in Kenya
- Title
- An uncertain age : the politics of manhood in Kenya / Paul Ocobock.
- Author
- Ocobock, Paul, 1980-
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 356 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- New African histories
- Uniform Title
- New African histories series.
- Subjects
- Coming of age
- Masculinity > Political aspects
- Conflict of generations
- Social conditions
- Young men > Social conditions
- Coming of age > Kenya > History > 20th century
- Kenya > Politics and government > To 1963
- Kenya > Social conditions > 20th century
- Young men > Kenya > Social conditions > 20th century
- Masculinity > Political aspects > Kenya > History > 20th century
- Kenya > Colonial influence
- Conflict of generations > Kenya > History > 20th century
- History
- Politics and government
- To 1999
- Colonial influence
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-711
- ISBN
- 9780821422632
- 0821422634
- 9780821422649
- 0821422642
- 9780821445983 (canceled/invalid)
- 0821445987 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017001261
- OCLC
- 969197512
- Author
- Ocobock, Paul, 1980- author.
- Title
- An uncertain age : the politics of manhood in Kenya / Paul Ocobock.
- Publisher
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New African historiesNew African histories series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-711