Makers and breakers : Children and youth in postcolonial Africa

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Titre Makers and breakers : Children and youth in postcolonial Africa
Type de publication Livre
Langue principale de la publication anglais
Année de publication 2005
Editeur scientifique Filip DE BOECK
Alcinda HONWANA
Préfacier Mamadou DIOUF
Nombre de pages 243
Éditeur James Currey
Ville Oxford
Genre recueil d'études
Pays d'édition Royaume-Uni
Résumé/Présentation Introduction : Children & youth in Africa by Filip de Boeck & Alcinda Honwana -- 1. Children & Youth In A Global Era - Reflections on youth, from the past to the postcolony by Jean & John Comaroff -- 2. The Pain Of Agency, The Agency Of Pain -- Child-soldiers as interstitial & tactical agents by Alcinda Honwana --- Young women in the Liberian civil war by Mats Utas --- Conceptions of pain & children's expressions of it in Southern Africa by Pamela Reynolds --- Consciousness, affliction & alterity in urban East Africa by Brad Weiss --- 3. Children, Youth & Marginality: In & Out Of Place -- The forbidden masquerades of Oku youth & women by Nicolas Argenti --- Song, choirs & youth in Botswana by Deborah Durham --- 4. Past The Postcolony? -- Youth culture & violence in Sierra Leone by Ibrahim Abdullah -- Children & witchcraft in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Filip de Boeck -- Young & street culture in urban Africa: Addis Ababa, Dakar & Kinshasha by Tshikala Biaya -- Afterword by Mamadou Diouf
Référence complète Honwana, Alcinda Manuel ; De Boeck, Filip (ed.). Makers and breakers : Children and youth in postcolonial Africa. Afterword by Mamadou Diouf. Oxford : James Currey, 2005, 243 p. - ISBN 0-85255-434-6.