When the Light Is Fire Howard T. Tokunaga Of interest to historians

Of interest to historians

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including his address to young people

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maximising the opportunities they have to reconnect with their peers

When the Light Is Fire Howard T. Tokunaga Of interest to historiansTeasing out the entanglement of vulnerability and empowerment in girls' lives A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender related forms of oppression. Heather D. Switzer's interviews with over one hundred Kenyan Maasai schoolgirls challenge the widespread