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024	7		_a10.1163/9789047407003 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)228171560
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050	0	0	_aHQ799.A25 _bV36 2005
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100	1		_aAbbink, Jon, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aVanguard or Vandals : _bYouth, Politics and Conflict in Africa / _cby Jon Abbink ; (Edited by) Ineke van Kessel.
246	3		_aYouth, Politics and Conflict in Africa
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2005.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAfrican Dynamics ; _v4
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
500			_aBased on an African Studies Centre conference held in Leiden in April 2003.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aContents -- Illustrations vii -- Maps vii -- Tables vii -- Photographs vii -- 1 Being young in Africa: The politics of despair and renewal 1 -- Jon Abbink -- PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH AS AGENTS OF CHANGE -- 2 Towards a political history of youth in Muslim northern Nigeria, 1750-2000 37 -- Murray Last -- 3 Imagined generations: Constructing youth in revolutionary Zanzibar 55 -- G. Thomas Burgess -- PART II: STATE, CRISIS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF YOUTH -- 4 Clash of generations? Youth identity, violence and the politics of transition in Kenya, 1997-2002 81 -- Peter Mwangi Kagwanja -- 5 Re-generating the nation: Youth, revolution and the politics of history in Côte d'Ivoire 110 -- Karel Arnaut -- 6 War, changing ethics and the position of youth in South Sudan 143 -- Jok Madut Jok -- 7 Anglophone university students and Anglophone nationalist struggles in Cameroon 161 -- Piet Konings -- 8 Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, politics and the state in Eritrea 189 -- Sara Rich Dorman -- PART III: INTERVENTIONS: DEALING WITH YOUTH IN CRISIS -- 9 From generational conflict to renewed dialogue: Winning the trust of street children in Lomé, Togo 207 -- Yves Marguerat -- 10 Children as conflict stakeholders: Towards a new discourse on young combatants 228 -- Angela McIntyre -- 11 Warriors, hooligans and mercenaries: Failed statehood and the violence of young male pastoralists in the Horn of Africa 243 -- Simon Simonse -- 12 Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone: Accommodating indigenous and wartime value systems 267 -- Krijn Peters -- List of authors 297.
520			_aThis book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair about the future. Many of the political antagonisms and conflicts in which youths are involved do not only exist at the discursive level but are being produced by current demographic and socio-political contradictions in Africa. African youth, while forming a numerical majority, largely feel excluded from power, are socio-economically marginalized and thwarted in their ambitions. They have little access to representative positions or political power, which is making for a politically volatile situation in many African countries. The authors address several case studies from across Africa: the Mungiki movement in Kenya, youth agency in southern Sudan in times of war, the challenges of 're-integrating' youthful ex-combatants in Sierra Leone, and street children in Togo. A common aim is to try to explain why patterns of generational conflict and violent response among younger age groups in Africa are showing such a remarkably uneven spread across the continent and to advance the comparative study of youth and generational conflict beyond mere description of the varied empirical cases.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aConflict of generations _zAfrica.
650		0	_aYoung adults _xPolitical activity _zAfrica.
650		0	_aYouth and violence _zAfrica.
650		0	_aYouth _xPolitical activity _zAfrica.
650		0	_aYouth _zAfrica.
700	1		_aKessel, Ineke van, _eeditor.
710	2		_aRijksuniversiteit te Leiden. _bAfrika-Studiecentrum.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tVanguard or Vandals : Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005 _z9789004142756 _w(DLC) 2004059608 _w(OCoLC)56733112
830		0	_aAfrican Dynamics ; _v4.
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047407003
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