ISBN:
9789004142756
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (311 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Vanguard or Vandals : Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa
DDC:
305.235/096
Keywords:
Conflict of generations ; Africa
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Young adults ; Africa ; Political activity
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Youth ; Africa ; Political activity
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Youth ; Africa
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Youth and violence ; Africa
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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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
Description / Table of Contents:
Illustrations; Maps; Tables; Photographs; 1 Being young in Africa: The politics of despair and renewal (Jon Abbink); 2 Towards a political history of youth in Muslim northern Nigeria, 1750-2000 (Murray Last); 3 Imagined generations: Constructing youth in revolutionary Zanzibar (G. Thomas Burgess); 4 Clash of generations? Youth identity, violence and the politics of transition in Kenya, 1997-2002 (Peter Mwangi Kagwanja); 5 Re-generating the nation: Youth, revolution and the politics of history in Côte d'Ivoire (Karel Arnaut)
Description / Table of Contents:
6 War, changing ethics and the position of youth in South Sudan (Jok Madut Jok)7 Anglophone university students and Anglophone nationalist struggles in Cameroon (Piet Konings); 8 Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, politics and the state in Eritrea (Sara Rich Dorman); 9 From generational conflict to renewed dialogue: Winning the trust of street children in Lomé, Togo (Yves Marguerat); 10 Children as conflict stakeholders: Towards a new discourse on young combatants (Angela McIntyre)
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Warriors, hooligans and mercenaries: Failed statehood and the violence of young male pastoralists in the Horn of Africa (Simon Simonse)12 Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone: Accommodating indigenous and wartime value systems (Krijn Peters); List of authors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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