An Uncertain Age. Paul Ocobock

An Uncertain Age - Paul Ocobock


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      An Uncertain Age

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES

      SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN, ALLEN ISAACMAN, AND DEREK R. PETERSON

      Books in this series are published with support from the Ohio University Center for International Studies.

      David William Cohen and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo, The Risks of Knowledge

      Belinda Bozzoli, Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid

      Gary Kynoch, We Are Fighting the World

      Stephanie Newell, The Forger’s Tale

      Jacob A. Tropp, Natures of Colonial Change

      Jan Bender Shetler, Imagining Serengeti

      Cheikh Anta Babou, Fighting the Greater Jihad

      Marc Epprecht, Heterosexual Africa?

      Marissa J. Moorman, Intonations

      Karen E. Flint, Healing Traditions

      Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola, editors, Recasting the Past

      Moses E. Ochonu, Colonial Meltdown

      Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts, and Elizabeth Thornberry, editors, Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

      Daniel R. Magaziner, The Law and the Prophets

      Emily Lynn Osborn, Our New Husbands Are Here

      Robert Trent Vinson, The Americans Are Coming!

      James R. Brennan, Taifa

      Benjamin N. Lawrance and Richard L. Roberts, editors, Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake

      David M. Gordon, Invisible Agents

      Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman, Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development

      Stephanie Newell, The Power to Name

      Gibril R. Cole, The Krio of West Africa

      Matthew M. Heaton, Black Skin, White Coats

      Meredith Terretta, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence

      Paolo Israel, In Step with the Times

      Michelle R. Moyd, Violent Intermediaries

      Abosede A. George, Making Modern Girls

      Alicia C. Decker, In Idi Amin’s Shadow

      Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Conjugal Rights

      Shobana Shankar, Who Shall Enter Paradise?

      Emily S. Burrill, States of Marriage

      Todd Cleveland, Diamonds in the Rough

      Carina E. Ray, Crossing the Color Line

      Sarah Van Beurden, Authentically African

      Giacomo Macola, The Gun in Central Africa

      Lynn Schler, Nation on Board

      Julie MacArthur, Cartography and the Political Imagination

      Abou B. Bamba, African Miracle, African Mirage

      Daniel Magaziner, The Art of Life in South Africa

      Paul Ocobock, An Uncertain Age

       An Uncertain Age

       The Politics of Manhood in Kenya

      Paul Ocobock

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Ocobock, Paul, 1980– author.

      Title: An uncertain age : the politics of manhood in Kenya / Paul Ocobock.

      Other titles: New African histories series.

      Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017001261| ISBN 9780821422632 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422649 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445983 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Coming of age—Kenya—History—20th century. | Masculinity—Political aspects—Kenya—History—20th century. | Young men—Kenya—Social conditions—20th century. | Conflict of generations—Kenya—History—20th century. | Kenya—Social conditions—20th century. | Kenya—Colonial influence. | Kenya—Politics and government—To 1963.

      Classification: LCC DT433.575 .O26 2017 | DDC 967.6203—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017001261

       Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       Chapter 1. An “Arbitrary Line”: Male Initiation and Colonial Authority

       Chapter 2. “I Wanted to Make Something of Myself”: Migration, Wage Labor, and Earning an Age

       Chapter 3. “I Saw a Paradise”: Growing Up on the Streets of a Colonial City

       Chapter 4. “The Old Way . . . the Only Way”: Corporal Punishment and a Community of Disciplinarians

       Chapter 5. “Jaili Watoto,” the Children’s Jail: Reforming the Young Male Offender

       Chapter 6. “In the Past, the Country Belonged to the Young Men”: Freedom Fighting at an Uncertain Age

       Chapter 7. “We’re the Wamumu Boys”: Defeating Mau Mau; Creating Youth at the End of Empire

       Chapter 8. “An Army without Guns”: The


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