04101nam 22007454a 450 991081345830332120200520144314.01-280-86764-797866108676461-4294-5502-090-474-0700-81-4337-0704-7(CKB)1000000000334885(EBL)280860(OCoLC)228171560(SSID)ssj0000266699(PQKBManifestationID)11238352(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266699(PQKBWorkID)10322806(PQKB)11262819(Au-PeEL)EBL280860(CaPaEBR)ebr10171699(CaONFJC)MIL86764(MiAaPQ)EBC280860(EXLCZ)99100000000033488520040923d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVanguard or vandals youth, politics, and conflict in Africa /edited by Jon Abbink, Ineke van Kessel1st ed.Leiden ;Boston Brill20051 online resource (311 p.)African dynamics,1568-1777 ;4Based on an African Studies Centre conference held in Leiden in April 2003.90-04-14275-4 Includes bibliographical references.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)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)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 authorsThis 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. AfricanAfrican dynamics ;4.YouthAfricaYouthAfricaPolitical activityYoung adultsAfricaPolitical activityConflict of generationsAfricaYouth and violenceAfricaYouthYouthPolitical activity.Young adultsPolitical activity.Conflict of generationsYouth and violence305.235/096Abbink J658788Kessel Ineke van1628974Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.Afrika-Studiecentrum.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813458303321Vanguard or vandals4012922UNINA