African Childhoods [electronic resource] : Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent /
Ensor, M.editor.
With 70 per cent of its people under the age of 30, Africa is the world's youngest continent. African youngsters have been largely characterized as either vulnerable victims of the frequent humanitarian crises that plague their homelands, or as violent militarized youth and 'troubled' gang members. Young people's contributions to processes of educational provision, peace building and participatory human development in Africa are often ignored. While acknowledging the profound challenges associated with growing up in an environment of uncertainty and deprivation, African Childhoods sheds light on African children's often constructive engagement with a variety of societal conditions, adverse or otherwise, and their ability to positively influence their own lives and those of others.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: African Childhoods: Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent; Part I The Political Economy of Child Survival in Africa: Agency, Labor, and Subsistence; 1 Are the Barrels Empty? Are the Children Any Safer? Child Domestic Labor and Servitude in Ghana; 2 Matches but No Fire: Street Children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 3 Youth Agency and Survival Strategies in Sierra Leone's Postwar Informal Economy
4 Turkana Children's Contributions to Subsistence and Household Ecology in KenyaPart II The Social Context of African Children: Kinship, Hardship, and Community; 5 Children Who Take Care of Other Children in the Suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique; 6 Seen but Not Heard: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV/AIDS; 7 Militarization, Generational Conf lict, and the Eritrean Refugee Crisis; Part III The Human Capital of African Children: Youth Voices and Schooling in the Youngest Continent; 8 Representing Youth: School Dramas and Youth Authority in Ghana
9 Conceptualizing the Child: An Analysis of Early Childhood Care and Education Policy in Tanzania10 Striving for Knowledge and Dignity: Young Qur'anic Students in Kano, Nigeria; Part IV African Children as Political Actors: Child-Inclusive Views on Peacebuilding and Social Change; 11 Dinka Youth and the Culture of Formal Schooling in Postconf lict South Sudan; 12 Educating Postconf lict Societies: Lessons from Rwanda and Liberia; 13 Our Voice: Public Health and Youths' Communication for Social Change in Senegal
14 Painting a Picture of Creative Arts Therapy for War-Affected Youth in Northern UgandaConclusions: The Next Generation of African Children; About the Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With 70 per cent of its people under the age of 30, Africa is the world's youngest continent. African youngsters have been largely characterized as either vulnerable victims of the frequent humanitarian crises that plague their homelands, or as violent militarized youth and 'troubled' gang members. Young people's contributions to processes of educational provision, peace building and participatory human development in Africa are often ignored. While acknowledging the profound challenges associated with growing up in an environment of uncertainty and deprivation, African Childhoods sheds light on African children's often constructive engagement with a variety of societal conditions, adverse or otherwise, and their ability to positively influence their own lives and those of others.
Political sociology.
Social groups.
Family.
Africa—Politics and government.
Ethnology—Africa.
Sociology.
Youth—Social life and customs.
Political Sociology.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
African Politics.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
Youth Culture.