The consequences of uniformity: the struggle for the Boy Scout uniform in colonial Kenya.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In the late 1950s, authorities in Uganda arrested a number of young men from Kenya trying to sneak over the border while dressed in variations of the Boy Scout uniform. Although European Boy Scout leaders were alarmed by these potential smugglers' use of Scouting, they were particularly concerned by their appropriation and modification of the movement's uniform and core symbols. Worried Scout officials described the young men as "festooned with badges" and singled out one "gorgeous creature" who the police caught wearing "everything in the book and a few extras." (1) In donning ...

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