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Book SynopsisWhat Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people’s everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow’s yesterday means for them in personal and political terms. Contributors are: Ehaab Abdou, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Henni Alava, Päivi Armila, Randi Rønning Balsvik, Jesper Bjarnesen, Þóra Björnsdóttir, Jónína Einarsdóttir, Tilo Grätz, Nanna Jordt Jørgensen, Marko Kananen, Sofia Laine, Naydene de Lange, Afifa Ltifi, Ivo Mhike, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Danai S. Mupotsa, Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, Eija Ranta, Mounir Saidani, Mariko Sato, Loubna H. Skalli, Tiina Sotkasiira, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leena Suurpää, and Mulumebet Zenebe. What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpää Part 1: Envisioning 2 A Question of Power Danai S. Mupotsa 3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt Henri Onodera 4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in Tunisia Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpää and Afifa Ltifi 5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement? Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli 6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Mulumebet Zenebe 7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption Mounir Saidani Part 2: Entitlement 8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso Jesper Bjarnesen 9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya Nanna Jordt Jørgensen 10 “Acholi Youth Are Lost”: Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda Henni Alava 11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin Tilo Grätz 12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland Mariko Sato Part 3: Embeddedness 13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends Abdoulaye Sounaye 14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans Eija Ranta 15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe’s National Youth Service, 2001–2007 Ivo Mhike 16 Students’ Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Rønning Balsvik 17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights Þóra Björnsdóttir and Jónína Einarsdóttir 18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young Somalis Päivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira 19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: ‘Gender activism in the making’ Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane Index
