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This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.



Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Age and Generation.- 3. Enslavement and Unfreedom.- 4. Race and Childhood.- 5. Schooling and Education.- 6. Work and Play.- 7. Politics and Violence.- 8. Conclusion.

Children and Youth in African History

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      Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
      Published 13 December 2022
      ISBN-13 9783031110962
      978-3031110962
      ISBN-10 303111096X
      Also in:
      History African history Colonialism and imperialism Historiography

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.



      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction.- 2. Age and Generation.- 3. Enslavement and Unfreedom.- 4. Race and Childhood.- 5. Schooling and Education.- 6. Work and Play.- 7. Politics and Violence.- 8. Conclusion.

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