This book focuses on the lives and experiences of young people in Africa. On agents who,
willingly or unwillingly, see themselves as belonging to the socio-generational category of …

The Status of the Youth Report (SYR) 2003-2004 was commissioned by the Umsobomvu
Youth Fund as a background document against which to make future, regular assessments …

Since the end of the 1990s, an increasing number of publications and conferences have
dealt with the question of children and youth in postcolonial Africa. What is significant in …

This article presents an exploration of how past and future are articulated in the construction
of youth identities in the context of South Africa, with a particular focus on the possibilities for …

This study is about subjectivities of young people and about coming of age in a frontier town,
Beitbridge, in southern Zimbabwe. The study is motivated by the growing attention to African …

In contrast to the prevailing notion of the 'backwardness' of African culture, Chan suggests a
dynamism and innovation that has, at times, been required and flourished under …

The studies in this book present many different views onto the lives of the young around the
continent. They contribute to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of …

Generation in Africa has recently attracted considerable and perhaps unprecedented
scholarly interest. In the last four years four major insti-tutions have hosted international …

Handbook of the Sociology of Youth in BRICS Countries : South African Youth Identity and
Generation Page 1 289 Chapter 15 South African Youth Identity and Generation Jayanathan …

Youth are an increasingly compelling subject for study in Africa, entering into political space
in highly complex ways. To pay attention to youth is to pay close attention to the topology of …