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Title:African youth and the persistence of marginalization: employment, politics and prospects for change
Editors:Resnick, DanielleISNI
Thurlow, James
Year:2015
Pages:188
Language:English
Series:Routledge Studies in African Development
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Taylor and Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138829473; 1138829471; 9781138829473; 1317571045; 9781317571049
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Tanzania
South Africa
Subjects:youth
youth employment
urban youth
social conditions
Abstract:This book critically examines the extent and consequences of the marginalization of African youth. It questions conventional wisdoms about data trends, aspirational goals, and common policy interventions surrounding Africa's youth that have been variously propagated in both the development studies literature and in mainstream donor policy reports. The book explores macro trends from both a temporal and cross-regional perspective in order to highlight what is distinct about contemporary African youth and whether their prospects and behaviours do actually vary from their counterparts in other regions of the world or from previous generations of African youth. Contents: Introduction: African youth at a crossroads (Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow). Part I: Cross-country analyses of economic and political trends. Youth employment prospects in Africa (James Thurlow); Protesting for a better tomorrow? Youth mobilization in Africa (Danielle Resnick). Part II: Youth aspirations in urban Africa. Cities of youth: post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality (Karen Tranberg Hansen); Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements: prospecting a mineralized future (Deborah Fahy Bryceson). Part III: Assessing extant policy options for improving youth employment. Young people, agriculture, and employment in rural Africa (James Sumberg, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Michael Chasukwa, Blessings Chinsinga, Jennifer Leavy, Getnet Tadele, Stephen Whitfield and Joseph Yaro); Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in sub-Saharan Africa (Moses Oketch); The success of learnerships? Lessons from South Africa's training and education programme (Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts, And Volker Schöer). Conclusions: moving beyond conventional wisdoms (Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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