Paul Ocobock. An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. xi + 356 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2264-9.
Abstract:In An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya, Paul Ocobock explores how the Kenyan colonial "elder state" used age and gender to rule. He meticulously details how officials viewed colonized Africans as their juniors, in need of guidance and discipline. Through close examinations, the author compellingly elucidates that Kenya as a colony was no seamless well-oiled machine, but rather a "crowded, cacophonous place" of religious leaders, judges, wardens, and other authorities who all had frequently compe… Show more
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