ISBN:
9781429455022
,
1429455020
,
1433707047
,
9781433707049
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 300 pages)
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Illustrations, maps
Series Statement:
African dynamics 4
DDC:
305.235/096
Keywords:
Jugend
;
Politisches Verhalten
;
Politischer Konflikt
;
Afrika
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair about the future. African.
Note:
Based on an African Studies Centre conference held in Leiden in April 2003
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Includes bibliographical references
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