By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, Making Men in Ghana                  explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. Stephan F.                  Miescher concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were                  prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation. Miescher                  shows how they negotiated complex social and economic transformations and how they                  dealt with their mounting obligations and responsibilities as leaders in their                  kinship groups, churches, and schools. Not only were notions about men and                  masculinity shaped by community standards, but they were strongly influenced by                  imported standards that came from missionaries and other colonial officials. As he                  recounts the life histories of these men, Miescher reveals that the passage to                  manhood -- and a position of power, seniority, authority, and leadership -- was not                  always welcome or easy. As an important foil for studies on women and femininity,                  this groundbreaking book not only explores masculinity and ideals of male behavior,                  but offers a fresh perspective on African men in a century of change.

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