Generations Past

Youth in East African History

By: Andrew Burton (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 September 2010

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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. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies.

While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Generations Past seeks to address this gap through a wide-ranging selection of essays that covers an array of youth-related themes in historical perspective. Thirteen chapters explore the historical dimensions of youth in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century Ugandan, Tanzanian, and Kenyan societies. Key themes running through the book include the analytical utility of youth as a social category; intergenerational relations and the passage of time; youth as a social and political problem; sex and gender roles among East African youth; and youth as historical agents of change. The strong list of contributors includes prominent scholars of the region, and the collection encompasses a good geographical spread of all three East African countries.

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"Generations Pas is indeed a unique book - the first anthology of essays examining African youth in historical context [...] this book is a welcome contribution to this emerging sub-field of African history. Its accessible language makes it a valuable resource fit for adoption at different levels in the teaching of African history." - Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Arms and Adolescence: Male Youth, Warfare, and Statehood in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Africa	p. 25
Youth, Cattle Raiding, and Generational Conflict along the Kenya-Uganda Border	p. 47
Setting a Moral Economy in Motion: Youth in Tanzania's "Age of Improvement"	p. 68
Colonial Youth at the Crossroads: Fifteen Alliance "Boys"	p. 84
Raw Youth, School-Leavers, and the Emergence of Structural Unemployment in Late Colonial Urban Tanganyika	p. 108
Bad Boys in the Bush?: Disciplining Murran in Colonial Maasailand	p. 135
Youth, Elders, and Metaphors of Political Change in Late Colonial Buganda	p. 175
Youth, the TANU Youth League, and Managed Vigilantism in Dar es Salaam, 1925-73	p. 196
To Differentiate Rice from Grass: Youth Labor Camps in Revolutionary Zanzibar	p. 221
Premarital Sexuality in Great Lakes Africa, 1900-1980	p. 237
"Ruined Lives": An Analysis of Gender Relations, Youth Sexual Behavior, and HIV and AIDS in Early Twenty-First-Century Kenya	p. 262
Protecting Young People: Alcohol, Advertising, and Youth in Kenya	p. 279
Contributors	p. 291
Index	p. 293
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