TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton,Andrew
AU  - Charton-Bigot,Hélène
TI  - Generations Past: Youth in East African History
SN  - 9780821443439
AV  - GN658.G46 2010 
U1  - 967.6 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Athens, OH
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Ethnology--Africa, Eastern
KW  - Social change--Africa, Eastern
KW  - Age groups--Africa, Eastern
KW  - Intergenerational relations--Africa, Eastern
KW  - Young men--Africa, Eastern
KW  - Africa, Eastern--Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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