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Vanguard or vandals : youth, politics, and conflict in Africa
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- Creator
- edited by Jon Abbink, Ineke van Kessel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005
- Series
- Physical Details
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- ix, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9004142754, 9789004142756, 9786610867646, 1433707047, 1280867647, 9047407008, 1429455020
- OCLC
- ocn228171560, ocm56733112
- Based on an African Studies Centre conference held in Leiden in April 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Being young in Africa : the politics of despair and renewal / Jon Abbink -- Towards a political history of youth in Muslim northern Nigeria, 1750-2000 / Murray Last -- Imagined generations : constructing youth in revolutionary Zanzibar / G. Thomas Burgess -- Clash of generations? Youth identity, violence and the politics of transition in Kenya, 1997-2002 / Peter Mwangi Kagwanja -- Re-generating the nation : youth revolution and the politics of history in Côte d'Ivoire / Karel Arnaut -- War, changing ethics and the position of youth in South Sudan / Jok Madut Jok -- Anglophone university students and Anglophone nationalist struggles in Cameroon / Piet Konings -- Past the Kalashnikov : youth, politics and the state in Eritrea / Sara Rich Dorman -- From generational conflict to renewed dialogue : winning the trust of street children in Lomé, Togo / Yves Marguerat -- Children as conflict stakeholders : towards a new discourse on young combatants / Angela McIntyre -- Warriors, hooligans and mercenaries : failed statehood and the violence of young male pastoralists in the Horn of Africa / Simon Simonse -- Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone : accommodating indigenous and wartime value systems / Krijn Peters