How Long to Read Ethno-erotic Economies: Crafting Samburu Futures in Postcolonial Kenya

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It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read Ethno-erotic Economies: Crafting Samburu Futures in Postcolonial Kenya by George Paul Meiu

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This dissertation examines how a people long venerated and vilified for their ethnic and sexual difference use that very same difference to produce livelihoods. Since the 1980s, young men from the Samburu District of northern Kenya migrated to beach resorts to sell souvenirs and perform traditional dances for tourists. They sought to capitalize on the colonial image of the exotic Maa-speaking male "warrior" or moran, who had become a core brand of East Africa as a tourist destination. Most of them hoped to meet European women for transactional sex. As more and more women from Western Europe had relationships with Samburu men, some of these men acquired spectacular wealth in a very short time. Through gifts of money from their partners, men built houses, bought land, livestock, and cars, and opened various businesses. Many of them paid bridewealth and married one or two local wives. Some jumped across age grades by paying for an early initiation into elderhood. Others funded elections and became regional councilors. In a time when most people in Samburu District struggled to produce livelihoods in face of a declining cattle economy, rapid population growth, the alienation of land, and unemployment, the wealth of these "young big-men" became a salient object of moral contestation.

How long is Ethno-erotic Economies: Crafting Samburu Futures in Postcolonial Kenya?

Ethno-erotic Economies: Crafting Samburu Futures in Postcolonial Kenya by George Paul Meiu is 354 pages long, and a total of 89,916 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read Ethno-erotic Economies: Crafting Samburu Futures in Postcolonial Kenya aloud.

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