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Makers and Breakers: Children & Youth in Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Alcinda Honwana & Filip De Boeck

Published April 2005; 256 pages; ISBN  2-86978-156-9; index;
Africa $20.00 ; Elsewhere £16.95 

The studies in this book present many different views onto the lives of the young around the continent. They contribute to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of issues concerning children, youth, agency, locality, globalization and identity from the past to the postcolony and beyond. As such they strive to achieve a better insight into what lives in the hearts and minds of African youngsters.  

Alcinda Honwana is Program Director at the Social Science Research Council, New York;

Filip De Boeck is Chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven and Director of the Africa Research Center.

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Contents:

Introduction : Children & youth in Africa
by Filip de Boeck & Alcinda Honwana

I

• Children & Youth in a Global Era Reflections on youth, from the past to the postcolony
  by Jean & John Comaroff

II

• The Pain Of Agency, The Agency Of Pain Child-soldiers as interstitial & tactical agents
  by Alcinda Honwana

• Young women in the Liberian civil war
  by Mats Utas

• Conceptions of pain & children's expressions of it in Southern Africa
  by Pamela Reynolds

• Consciousness, affliction & alterity in urban East Africa
  by Brad Weiss

III

• Children, Youth & Marginality In & Out of Place The forbidden masquerades of Oku youth & women
  by Nicolas Argenti

• Song, choirs & youth in Botswana
  by Deborah Durham

IV

• Past The Postcolony? Youth culture & violence in Sierra Leone
  by Ibrahim Abdullah

• Children & witchcraft in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  by Filip de Boeck

• Young & street culture in urban Africa, Addis Ababa, Dakar & Kinshasha
  by Tshikala Biaya

Afterword by Mamadou Diouf

ISBN 2-86978-156-9; Africa $20.00 ; Elsewhere £16.95

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