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Title: | No More English Than the Postal System: The Kenya Boy Scout Movement and the Transfer of Power |
Author: | Parsons, Timothy H. |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | Spring |
Pages: | 61-80 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Kenya Great Britain |
Subjects: | decolonization colonialism youth organizations History and Exploration Education and Oral Traditions Ethnic and Race Relations Law, Human Rights and Violence Economics and Trade |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v051/51.3parsons.pdf |
Abstract: | Decolonization in Kenya meant more than the transfer of political power: the end of colonial rule was part of a larger social transformation, where Africans struggled to master and adapt the political and social institutions they inherited from Britain. The attempt by the Kenya Boy Scout movement to successfully navigate the period from 1959 to 1964, when colonial officials, nationalist political leaders, and the common people alike negotiated the meaning of independence, exposes the social tensions inherent in this process. These tensions arose from high expectations for postcolonial prosperity and competing conceptions of the new Kenyan nation. The 'Africanization' of Kenyan scouting embodied larger debates - over political economy, education, race relations, and juvenile delinquency - that made this a particularly turbulent period in Kenyan history. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |