Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-347) and index.

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.

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