Africa's Urban Youth
Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship
Tracy Kuperus author Amy S Patterson author Megan Hershey author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:10th Aug '23
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Draws from extensive fieldwork in three countries to show how African youth negotiate citizenship through daily obligations, relationships, and political engagement.
Drawing from extensive fieldwork in three countries, this book explores how African urban youth navigate citizenship through daily experiences, relationships, and political engagement. Privileging the voice and agency of Africa's young people, it shows how identity is negotiated across religious, gender, economic, and regional distinctions.Making up 65 percent of Africa's population, young people between the ages of 18 and 35 play a key role in politics, yet they live in an environment of rapid urbanization, high unemployment rates and poor state services. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, this book investigates how Africa's urban youth cultivate a sense of citizenship in this challenging environment, and what it means to them to be a 'good citizen'. In interviews and focus group discussions, African youth, activists, and community leaders vividly explain how income, religion, and gender intertwine with their sense of citizenship and belonging. Though Africa's urban youth face economic and political marginalization as well as generational tensions, they craft a creative citizenship identity that is rooted in their relationships and obligations both to each other and the state. Privileging above all the voice and agency of Africa's young people, this is a vital, systematic examination of youth and youth citizenship in urban environments across Africa.
ISBN: 9781009235174
Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 21mm
Weight: 560g
202 pages