African childhoods
Subtitle: education, development, and peacebuilding on the youngest continent
By: edited by Marisa O. Ensor
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137024695
Subjects: Children and war; Children and politics; Social conditions; Education; Economic development; Children; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: About the contributors; title: Introduction : African childhoods : education, development, and peacebuilding in the youngest continent / Marisa O. Ensor; title: The political economy of child survival in Africa : agency, labor and subsistence; title: Are the barrels empty? : are the children any safer? : child domestic labor and servitude in Ghana / C. Nana Derby; title: Matches but no fire : street children and the state in Dares Salaam, Tanzania / Claire M. Wagner, Emmanuely D. Lyimo,& Steven Lwendo; title: Youth agency and survival strategies in Sierra Leone's post-war informal economy / John Idriss Lahai; title: Turkana children's contributions to subsistence and household ecology in Kenya / Tammy Y. Watkins; title: The social context of African children : kinship, hardship, and community; title: Children who take care of other children in the suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique / Elena Colonna; title: Seen but not heard : African orphanhood as lived experience / Kristen E. Cheney; title: Militarization, generational conflict, and the Eritrean refugee crisis / Tricia M. Redeker Hepner; title: The human capital of African children : youth voices and schooling in the youngest continent; title: Representing youth : school dramas and youth authority in Ghana / Cati Coe; title: Conceptualizing the child : an analysis of early childhood care and education policy in Tanzania / Bethany C. Wilinski; title: Striving for knowledge and dignity : young Quranic students in Kano, Nigeria / Hannah Hoechner; title: African children as political actors : child-inclusive views on peacebuilding and social change; title: Dinka youth and the culture of formal schooling in post-conflict South Sudan / Andrew I. Epstein; title: Educating postconflict societies : lessons from Rwanda and Liberia / Francis E. Godwyll & Siphokazi Magadla; title: Our voice : public health and youths' communication for social change in Senegal / Laurel J. Felt & Alexandre Rideau; title: Painting a picture of expressive arts therapy for war-affected youth in Northern Uganda / Julia R. Hanebrink & Alanya J. Smith; title: Conclusions; title: The next generation of African children / Marisa O. Ensor; title: Index.