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An Uncertain Age - The Politics of Manhood in Kenya (Hardcover)
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An Uncertain Age - The Politics of Manhood in Kenya (Hardcover)
Series: New African Histories
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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. Kenyan men and boys came of age achieving their
manhood through changing rites of passage and access to new outlets
such as town life, crime, anticolonial violence, and nationalism.
And as they did, the colonial government appropriated masculinity
and maturity as means of statecraft and control. In An Uncertain
Age, Paul Ocobock positions age and gender at the heart of everyday
life and state building in Kenya. He excavates in unprecedented
ways how the evolving concept of "youth" motivated and energized
colonial power and the movements against it, exploring the
masculinities boys and young men debated and performed as they
crisscrossed the colony in search of wages or took the Mau Mau
oath. Yet he also considers how British officials' own ideas about
masculinity shaped not only young African men's ideas about manhood
but the very nature of colonial rule. An Uncertain Age joins a
growing number of histories that have begun to break down
monolithic male identities to push the historiographies of Kenya
and empire into new territory.
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