An Uncertain Age – The Politics of Manhood in Kenya Ocobock Paperback

Name: An Uncertain Age – The Politics of Manhood in Kenya Ocobock Paperback
Brand: Ohio University Press

Ohio University Press

An Uncertain AgeThe Politics of Manhood in Kenya\nAuthor(s): Paul Ocobock\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821422649, 978-0821422649\nSynopsis\nIn 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.\n 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 en.