Generations Past: Youth in East African History

Contributors

 Contributors James R. Brennan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois. He received his PhD in African History from Northwestern University in 2002. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on nationalism and urbanization in Tanzania, and is currently researching the historical role of radio and other mass media in Eastern Africa’s political culture. His publications include the coedited (with Andrew Burton and Yusuf Lawi) collection Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis. G. Thomas Burgess is Assistant Professor of African History at the U.S. Naval Academy. His research interests include generation, nationalism, and African intellectual history. Aside from numerous essays, his most recent book is Race, Revolution , and the Struggle for Human Rights in Zanzibar. Andrew Burton is Honorary Research Associate of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, currently based in Addis Ababa. He has published widely on East African urban history. His publications include African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam (Oxford, 2005), and (as editor) The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa, ca. 1750–2000 (Nairobi, 2002), and (with James Brennan and Yusuf Lawi) Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis. Hélène Charton-Bigot is a CNRS researcher at the CEAN (Centre d’étude de l’Afrique noire) at the University of Bordeaux. She is a former assistant director of the Institut français de recherche en Afrique in Nairobi. Her main area of research is the history of education and elites in East Africa. She is currently working on a monograph on the making of the Kenyan elite after World War II. She coedited Nairobi Contemporain, les paradoxes d’une ville fragmentée with D. Rodriguez-Torres, and L’Annuaire de l’Afrique de l’Est, 2004 and 2005 with Claire Médard. Shane Doyle is Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Leeds, and has previously worked at the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. He is the author of a number of articles on Ugandan history and has recently published Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population and Environment in Western Uganda, 1860–1955 and, with Henri Médard, Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. He is currently completing a project on the history of sexuality and demographic change in Great Lakes Africa. Dave Eaton teaches African history at Albion College, Michigan. He received his PhD from Dalhousie University in 2008. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on pastoralism and conflict in Kenya and Uganda.  Contributors James L. Giblin is Professor of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of two books, A History of the Excluded: Making Family and Memory a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania and The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840–1940. Eunice Kamaara is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Moi University, Kenya. She has research interests in youth sexual and reproductive health from socioanthropological, ethical, and gender perspectives. Her publications include Youth, Gender and HIV/AIDS: A Kenyan Experience. Joyce Nyairo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature,Theatre and Film Studies at Moi University. She coedited Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture & Literature in East Africa and has published numerous articles on Kenyan popular music in a variety of journals such as African Affairs, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Social Identities, Social Dynamics, and Scrutiny2. Richard Reid is Lecturer in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has previously taught at the University of Asmara in Eritrea and at Durham University. He is the author of Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda, War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa, A History of Modern Africa : 1800 to the Present, and a number of articles on various aspects of interstate conflict and liberation struggle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century northeast Africa. He is the editor of Eritrea’s External Relations: Understanding Its Regional Role and Foreign Policy and is currently working on a history of conflict in northeast Africa. Carol Summers is Professor of History at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. She is the author of Colonial Lessons: Africans’ Education in Southern Rhodesia , 1918–1940, From Civilization to Segregation, and articles on both Zimbabwean and Ugandan history. Her current work on late colonial Uganda examines the development of mass politics, civil society, and political radicalism...