Children's agency and development in African societies / edited by Yaw Ofosu-Kusi = La capacité d'agir et le développement des enfants dans les sociétés africaines / sous la direction de Yaw Ofosu-Kusi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ofosu-Kusi, Yaw, editor.

Series:

Codesria book series.

CODESRIA Book Series

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Child development--Africa.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages).

Place of Publication:

Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2017.

Language Note:

11 Contributions in English and 5 in French.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents' and siblings' health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.

Contents:

1. Introduction : children's agency and development in African societies / Yaw Ofosu-Kusi

2. Establishing a foothold in the informal economy : children's dreams, agency and street life in Ghana / Yaw Ofosu-Kusi

3. Child fosterage dynamics in selected markets in Lagos State, Nigeria / Adediran Daniel Ikuomola

4. Educational challenges facing children in cocoa plantations in Ondo State, Nigeria / Musediq Olufemi Lawal

5. Childhood sexualities in Africa : agency and vulnerability / Deevia Bhana

6. Application of ‘theatre for development' in the promotion of youth agency in HIV prevention in Zomba City, Malawi / Catherine Mayesero Makhumula

7. Building resilience in child-headed households : an exploration of the integrated community home-based care model in Maseru District, Lesotho / Ts'epang Florence Manyeli

8. Children's perception of the images of Kenya's principal political leaders / Mokua Ombati

9. A study of children's participation in school management in Cameroon / Tete Jesinta Lebsonga

10. Children's assembly as a strategy for children's active participation in Kenyan society / Pamela M. Y. Ngugi

11. ́Etude comparative de la formation du sch́ema corporel ̀a travers le conflit sociocognitif chez des "Enfants du monde de diamant" de Banalia et des "Enfants gardiens de la for̂et" de Mambasa en RDC / Edmond Mokuinena Bomfie

12. Les enjeux th́eoriques et sociaux de la mod́elisation du comportement environnemental ̀a travers l'́education relative ̀a l'environnement : cas de l'́el̀eve du primaire en Ĉote d'Ivoire / Kabran Aristide Djane

13. Exṕeriences de vie migratoire et capacit́es d'agir des enfants : cas des aides ḿenag̀eres mineures dans la ville de Sikasso au Mali / Bra-Amba Dolo

14. Les causes du d́ecrochage scolaire des enfants et leur ŕeorientation au B́enin / Sandra Elvyre Loumedjinon

15. Impact de l'incarćeration d'un parent sur la vie de l'enfant au Cameroun / Hippolyte H́eli Abanda

16. Conclusion : agency, realities and the future of African childhoods / Yaw Ofosu-Kusi.

Notes:

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

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 14, 2017).

ISBN:

9782869787377

2869787375

OCLC:

1001412513