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Generations Past : Youth in East African History.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burton, Andrew
Otros Autores: Charton-Bigot, Hélène
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 PoliticalChange 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,1900-198011: "Ruined Lives"; 12: Protecting Young People; Contributors; Index.