Burton, Andrew. <br/><br/>
Generations Past :  Youth in East African History. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (446 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Arms and Adolescence -- 2 Youth, Cattle Raiding, and Generational Conflict along the Kenya-Uganda Border -- 3 Setting a Moral Economy in Motion -- 4 Colonial Youth at the Crossroads -- 5 Raw Youth, School-Leavers, and the Emergence of Structural Unemployment in Late Colonial Urban Tanganyika -- 6 Bad Boys in the Bush? -- 7 Youth, Elders, and Metaphors of Political Change in Late Colonial Buganda -- 8 Youth, the TANU Youth League, and Managed Vigilantism in Dar es Salaam, 1925-73 -- 9 To Differentiate Rice from Grass -- 10 Premarital Sexuality in Great Lakes Africa, 1900-1980 -- 11 "Ruined Lives" -- 12 Protecting Young People -- Contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821443439 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Africa, Eastern.<br/>Social change--Africa, Eastern.<br/>Age groups--Africa, Eastern.<br/>Intergenerational relations--Africa, Eastern.<br/>Young men--Africa, Eastern.<br/>Africa, Eastern--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN658.G46 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>967.6