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TITLE: Makers and Breakers Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa
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EDITOR: Alcinda Honwana  Filip de Boeck 
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FORMAT: Paperback (pp: 320) mm
ISBN: 0-85255-434-6
13 digit ISBN: 9780852554340
PUB DATE: 12 Jul 2005
AVAILABILITY: In print
PRICE: �16.95

DESCRIPTION:
The studies in this book present many different views onto the lives of the young around the continent. They contribute 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 they strive to achieve a better insight into what lives in the hearts and minds of African youngsters.

 

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


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