TY - BOOK AU - Ocobock,Paul TI - An uncertain age: the politics of manhood in Kenya T2 - New African histories SN - 9780821422632 AV - DT 433.575 .O26 2017 U1 - 967.6203 23 KW - Coming of age KW - Kenya KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Masculinity KW - Political aspects KW - Young men KW - Social conditions KW - Conflict of generations KW - Colonial influence KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Initiation KW - gnd KW - Mannlichkeit KW - Sozialpsychologie KW - To 1963 KW - Kenia N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ne????????????????????????????�A??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????�A?????????????????????????????????????????????????�A????????????????????????????????????????????�A??????????????????????????????????????????????????????�A?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????�A??????????????????????????????????????????????????????�A????????????????????????????????????????????????�A???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????�A???????????????????�A??????????????????????�A??????????????????????????�A???????????????????????????????????????????�A??????? ER -