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Generations past : youth in East African history / edited by Andrew Burton and Hélène Charton-Bigot ; contributors James R. Brennan [and twelve others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Africa, Eastern.
- Ethnology.
- Social change--Africa, Eastern.
- Social change.
- Age groups--Africa, Eastern.
- Age groups.
- Intergenerational relations--Africa, Eastern.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Young men--Africa, Eastern.
- Young men.
- Africa, Eastern--Social conditions.
- Africa, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under.
- Contents:
- Introduction / G. Thomas Burgess and Andrew Burton
- Arms and adolescence : male youth, warfare, and statehood in nineteenth-century Eastern Africa / Richard Reid
- Youth, cattle raiding, and generational conflict along the Kenya-Uganda border / Dave Eaton
- Setting a moral economy in motion : youth in Tanzania's "age of improvement" / James L. Giblin
- Colonial youth at the crossroads : fifteen alliance "boys" / Helene Charton-Bigot
- Raw youth, school-leavers, and the emergence of structural unemployment in late colonial urban Tanganyika / Andrew Burton
- Bad boys in the bush? Disciplining Murran in colonial Maasailand / Richard Waller
- Youth, elders, and metaphors of political change in late colonial Buganda / Carol Summers
- Youth, the TANU youth league, and managed vigilantism in Dar es Salaam, 1925-73 / James R. Brennan
- To differentiate rice from grass : youth labor camps in revolutionary Zanzibar / G. Thomas Burgess
- Premarital sexuality in Great Lakes Africa, 1900-1980 / Shane Doyle
- "Ruined lives" : an analysis of gender relations, youth sexual behavior, and HIV and AIDs in early twenty-first-century Kenya / Joyce Nyairo and Eunice Kamaara
- Protecting young people: alcohol, advertising, and youth in Kenya / Justin Willis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780821443439
- 0821443437
- OCLC:
- 794698915
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