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9780821419243: Generations Past: Youth in East African History
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ISBN 10: 0821419242 ISBN 13: 9780821419243
Casa editrice: Ohio Univ Pr, 2010

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Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies.

While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Generations Past seeks to address this gap through a wide-ranging selection of essays that covers an array of youth-related themes in historical perspective. Thirteen chapters explore the historical dimensions of youth in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first&;century Ugandan, Tanzanian, and Kenyan societies. Key themes running through the book include the analytical utility of youth as a social category; intergenerational relations and the passage of time; youth as a social and political problem; sex and gender roles among East African youth; and youth as historical agents of change. The strong list of contributors includes prominent scholars of the region, and the collection encompasses a good geographical spread of all three East African countries.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Andrew Burton is an honorary research asso­ciate of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, currently based in Addis Ababa. His publications include African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam and the coedited volume Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis.

Hélène Charton-Bigot is a CNRS researcher at the CEAN (Centre d&;étude d&;Afrique noire) at the University of Bordeaux. She coedited Nairobi contemporain, les paradoxes d&;une ville fragmentée, with D. Rodriguez-Torres.

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Editore
Ohio Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0821419242
ISBN 13 
9780821419243
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
301
Redattore
Burton Andrew, Charton-Bigot Helene
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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