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Vanguard or Vandals - Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa (Paperback)
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Vanguard or Vandals - Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa (Paperback)
Series: African Dynamics, 4
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This book contains a range of original studies on one of the major
challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in
politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only
the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory
militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more
generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of
young people in the socio-economic and political order of
post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted
with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair
about the future. Many of the political antagonisms and conflicts
in which youths are involved do not only exist at the discursive
level but are being produced by current demographic and
socio-political contradictions in Africa. African youth, while
forming a numerical majority, largely feel excluded from power, are
socio-economically marginalized and thwarted in their ambitions.
They have little access to representative positions or political
power, which is making for a politically volatile situation in many
African countries.
The authors address several case studies from across Africa: the
Mungiki movement in Kenya, youth agency in southern Sudan in times
of war, the challenges of 're-integrating' youthful ex-combatants
in Sierra Leone, and street children in Togo. A common aim is to
try to explain why patterns of generational conflict and violent
response among younger age groups in Africa are showing such a
remarkably uneven spread across the continent and to advance the
comparative study of youth and generational conflict beyond mere
description of the varied empirical cases.
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