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Generations Past : Youth in East African History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (446 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821443439
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Generations PastDDC classification:
  • 967.6
LOC classification:
  • GN658.G46 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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