Full Description
Presents a range of views on the lives of young people around Africa.
This book contributes to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of issues concerning children, youth, agency, locality, globalization and identity from the past to the postcolony and beyond. As such the authors strive to achieve a better insight into what lives in the hearts and minds of African youngsters.
Contributors include: Alcinda Honwana, Filip De Boeck, Jean & John Comaroff, Mats Utas, Pamela Reynolds, Tshikala Biaya,Deborah Durham, Nicolas Argenti, Ibrahim Abdullah & Mamadou Diouf
North America: Africa World Press; Senegal: Codesria
Contents
Introduction: Children & youth in Africa by Filip de Boeck & Alcinda Honwana I Children & Youth In A Global Era Reflections on youth, from the past to the postcolony by Jean & John Comaroff II The Pain Of Agency, The Agency Of Pain Child-soldiers as interstitial & tactical agents by Alcinda Honwana - Young women in the Liberian civil war by Mats Utas - Conceptions of pain & children's expressions of it in Southern Africa by Pamela Reynolds - Consciousness, affliction & alterity in urban East Africa by Brad Weiss III Children, Youth & Marginality: In & Out Of Place The forbidden masquerades of Oku youth & women by Nicolas Argenti - Song, choirs & youth in Botswana by Deborah Durham IV Past The Postcolony? Youth culture & violence in Sierra Leone by Ibrahim Abdullah - Children & witchcraft in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Filip de Boeck - Young & street culture in urban Africa: Addis Ababa, Dakar & Kinshasha by Tshikala Biaya - Afterword by Mamadou Diouf
