- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction
-
Chapter One: Western Kenya, 1880–1902 -
Chapter Two: Feeble Little Lads Looking for Food -
Chapter Three: “What Harm Can an Old Dry Bone Do?” -
Chapter Four: Lessons in Practical Christianity -
Chapter Five: Living “in Line” -
Chapter Six: The Impact of Gold Mining -
Chapter Seven: Land Conflicts in the 1930s -
Chapter Eight: Educating “Progressive” Sons -
Chapter Nine: The Burden of “Progressive” Sons -
Chapter Ten: Cash, Cows, and Bridewealth -
Chapter Eleven: Domestic Education at the Girls Boarding School -
Chapter Twelve: Moral Panic -
Chapter Thirteen: Wife Beating -
Chapter Fourteen: Citizenship and Land Rights in Postcolonial Kenya -
Chapter Fifteen: Rural Widows, City Widows, and the Fight for Inheritance - Conclusion
- Glossary
- Archival Sources
- Interviews and Conversations
- Periodicals
- Kenyan Government Publications
- Books, Articles, Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
- Index
Educating “Progressive” Sons
Educating “Progressive” Sons
- Chapter:
- (p.97) Chapter Eight: Educating “Progressive” Sons
- Source:
- Worries of the Heart
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter addresses the problem of African education in western Kenya. Education continued to preoccupy Maragoli leaders in the 1930s and 1940s. The leaders looked to education as the only way for their sons to advance in the colonial world. The Africans' demand for improved education was not isolated to western Kenya. Throughout the 1930s, members of the North Kavirondo Local Native Council (LNC) debated for their sons' education with uninhibited enthusiasm. Improvements in African education, driven largely by African initiatives, occurred in other parts of western Kenya. The new schools required much more capital for maintenance, and the costs were naturally passed on to the students and their families. It is noted in this chapter that widows wanted their sons to secure lucrative jobs and eventually they wanted this to help them meet their financial needs.
Keywords: African education, Maragoli leaders, sons, colonial world, African initiatives, western Kenya, widows
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction
-
Chapter One: Western Kenya, 1880–1902 -
Chapter Two: Feeble Little Lads Looking for Food -
Chapter Three: “What Harm Can an Old Dry Bone Do?” -
Chapter Four: Lessons in Practical Christianity -
Chapter Five: Living “in Line” -
Chapter Six: The Impact of Gold Mining -
Chapter Seven: Land Conflicts in the 1930s -
Chapter Eight: Educating “Progressive” Sons -
Chapter Nine: The Burden of “Progressive” Sons -
Chapter Ten: Cash, Cows, and Bridewealth -
Chapter Eleven: Domestic Education at the Girls Boarding School -
Chapter Twelve: Moral Panic -
Chapter Thirteen: Wife Beating -
Chapter Fourteen: Citizenship and Land Rights in Postcolonial Kenya -
Chapter Fifteen: Rural Widows, City Widows, and the Fight for Inheritance - Conclusion
- Glossary
- Archival Sources
- Interviews and Conversations
- Periodicals
- Kenyan Government Publications
- Books, Articles, Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
- Index
