Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa

by Alcinda Honwana and Filip De Boeck

Alcinda Honwana (Editor) and Filip De Boeck (Editor)

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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
  • ISBN10 0852554346
  • ISBN13 9780852554340
  • Publish Date 12 July 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint James Currey
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 256
  • Language English