MAKERS AND BREAKERS: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA Geography ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781496724243

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781496724243

Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been

have yielded fresh thinking on numerous subjects of interest to all students of politics

an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit

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MAKERS AND BREAKERS: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA Geography ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781496724243The problem of youth is presented as one of the great challenges of the twenty first century. In Africa youth are portrayed as perpetrators and victims in civil conflict, leaders and led in political and religious movements, innovators and dupes in globalized culture. This collection navigates through stereotypes of victim and perpetrator, taking on themes of youth agency and the constructed nature of youth as a social category. It presents a new