The time of youth : work, social change, and politics in Africa /

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Author / Creator:Honwana, Alcinda Manuel, author.
Edition:1st edition.
Imprint:Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, [2012]
Imprint of Stylus Pub.
©2012
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11408050
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ISBN:1565494733
9781565494732
1565494717
1565494725
1565494741
9781565494718
9781565494725
9781565494749
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Draws on interviews in Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia.
Most young Africans are living in waithood, a period of suspension between childhood and adulthood. Failed neo-liberal economic policies, bad governance and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear without jobs that pay living wages, these young people cannot support families, thus becoming fully participating members of society. As this limbo becomes pervasive and prolonged, waithood in Africa becomes seemingly permanent, gradually replacing conventional adulthood. And with the deepening of the world economic crisis, youth in Europe, North America and other parts of the world face the same crisis of joblessness and restricted futures. In "The Time of Youth," Alcinda Honwana examines the lives of young people in Africa, drawing on in-depth interviews in four countries: Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. While the case studies are local to Africa, the book argues that the waithood generation is global, and possesses a tremendous transformative potential, as young people believe the struggle to overcome their predicament requires radical social and political change. From riots and protests in the streets of Maputo, Dakar, Madrid, London, New York and Santiago, to revolutions that overthrow dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the waithood generation is taking upon itself to redress the wrongs of contemporary society and remake the world. -- Publisher description.
Other form:Print version: Honwana, Alcinda Manuel. Time of youth. 1st ed. Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press : Imprint of Stylus Pub., 2012, ©2012 9781565494718 1565494717