Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa

Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Men and Masculinities in Modern African History 1 (30) Stephan F. Miescher and Lisa A. Lindsay Part I: Challenging Senior Masculinity 31(56) 2. Forsaking Their Fathers? Colonialism, Christianity, and Coming of Age in Ovamboland, Northern Namibia 33 (19) Meredith McKittrick 3. "And She Became a Man": King Ahebi Ugbabe in the History of Enugu-Ezike, Northern Igboland,1880-1948 52 (17) Nwando Achebe 4. Old Soldiers, Young Men: Masculinity, Islam, and Military Veterans in Late 1950's Soudan Français (Mali) 69 (18) Gregory Mann Part II: (Re)Making Men in Colonial Africa 87(88) 5. The Making of Presbyterian Teachers: Masculinities and Programs of Education in Colonial Ghana 89 (20) Stephan F. Miescher 6. "Taken as Boys": The Politics of Black Police Employment and Experience in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa 109 (19) Keith Shear 7. Industrial Man Goes to Africa 128 (10) Frederick Cooper 8. Money, Marriage, and Masculinity on the Colonial Nigerian Railway 138 (18) Lisa A. Lindsay 9. A "Man" in the Village Is a "Boy" in the Workplace: Colonial Racism, Worker Militane, and Igbo Notions of Masculinity in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1930-1945 156 (19) Carolyn A. Brown Part III: Gendered Nationalisms 175(34) 10. Matrimony and Rebellion: Masculinity in Mau Mau 177 (15) Luise White 11. Gendered Nationalism: Forms of Masculinity in Modern Asante of Ghana 192 (17) Pashington Obeng Part IV: Masculinity and Modernity 209(44) 12. Being Maasai Men: Modernity and the Production of Maasai Masculinities 211 (19) Dorothy L. Hodgson 13. To Be A Man Is More Than a Day's Work: Shifting Ideals of Masculinity in Ado-Odo, Southwestern Nigeria 230 (19) Andrea A. Cornwall 14. Afterword 249 (4) Luise White Index 253(10) About the Contributors 263