Engaging children and youth in Africa : methodological and phenomenological issues / edited by Mwenda Ntarangwi & Guy Massart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ntarangwi, Mwenda, editor.

Massart, Guy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Social aspects--Africa.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, [Cameroon] ; Dakar, Senegal : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Representing research from east, central, west, and southern Africa, Engaging Children and Youth in Africa provides a well-balanced analysis of on-the-ground data with methodological and phenomenological issues that abound in much of research in Africa today. With an introduction that charts out some of the most critical approaches in African-centred research on children and youth, contributors to this volume give the reader a glimpse of the product of engaged research that places children and youth at the centre of analysis. The authors follow recent studies that have insisted on seeing African childhood and youth beyond constraining Western notions of vulnerability or innocence, to capture the ways in which recent advances in technology, the intensification of global processes, and continued weakening of the nation-state have not only contributed to new ways of being children and youth but how they have also provided a new lens through which to study social change.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The professional constructions of childhood and youth in Africa: new directions for research

Natewinde Sawadogo

2. New directions in child and youth research in Africa

Patricia Henderson

3. "it's not normal but it's common" : elopement, marriage and the mediated recognition of youth identity in Harare, Zimbabwe

Jeremy Jones

4. Children's lives and children's voices : an exploration of popular music's representation of children in East Africa

Mwenda Ntarangwi

5. Teenage girls, mobile phones and perceptions of autonomy : examples from Molyko Neighbourhood, southwest Cameroon

Flavius Mayoa Mokake

6. Street dialogue spaces : youth and the reshaping of public political process in Ivory Coast

Silue Oumar

7. The city production process: Ouagadougou youth, street culture and new forms of engaging with Burkina Faso's political sphere

Ollo Pepin Hien.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliograpghical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 15, 2015).

ISBN:

9789956762279

995676227X

OCLC:

916529784