Africa's Urban Youth - Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2023
Authors:	Amy S Patterson • Tracy Kuperus • Megan Hershey
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-923514-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-00-923514-1
Barcode:	9781009235143

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