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Africa's Urban Youth - Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship
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Africa's Urban Youth - Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship
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Making up 65 percent of Africa's population, young people between
the ages of 18 and 35 play a key role in politics, yet they live in
an environment of rapid urbanization, high unemployment rates and
poor state services. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Ghana,
Uganda and Tanzania, this book investigates how Africa's urban
youth cultivate a sense of citizenship in this challenging
environment, and what it means to them to be a 'good citizen'. In
interviews and focus group discussions, African youth, activists,
and community leaders vividly explain how income, religion, and
gender intertwine with their sense of citizenship and belonging.
Though Africa's urban youth face economic and political
marginalization as well as generational tensions, they craft a
creative citizenship identity that is rooted in their relationships
and obligations both to each other and the state. Privileging above
all the voice and agency of Africa's young people, this is a vital,
systematic examination of youth and youth citizenship in urban
environments across Africa.
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