An Uncertain Age - Making Manhood, Maturity, and the Elder State in Kenya

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Ocobock
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2017
• EAN: 9780821422632
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2263-2
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: New African Histories
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories