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About this book
Zimbabwe celebrated its independence just over 40 years ago. While the nation is no longer young, its population certainly is: over 60% are under the age of 35. Understanding youth perspectives and experiences is therefore vitally important. Fending for Ourselves reviews the recent histories and realities of youths in Zimbabwe, offering a distinguished range of authors exploring issues of education, employment and work, the urban experience, involvement in the informal economy, mental health, and political activity. Importantly, the collection examines successive generations of youth in Zimbabwe to show how ideas, experiences and reactions to the social, political, and economic context have shifted over time. Many of the issues affecting youth over the past 40 years have been traumatic and distressing ñ physical and mental abuse, declining employment and educational opportunities, poverty, ill-health and loss of hope ñ but this collection underlines the agency and resilience of ZimbabweĂs young people, and how they have found ways to navigate the political, social, and economic terrains they occupy.
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Global Development StudiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Authors
- 1. Introduction â Rory Pilossof
- 2. Young Postcolonials: Youth in Zimbabwe 1980-2020
- 3. Born free, but everywhere in chains: What has happened to the youth of Zimbabwe since 1980?
- 4. Education in Zimbabwe from 1980-2000
- 5. Selling a False Dream: Youth, Education and Employment in Zimbabwe
- 6. State Youth Programmes in Zimbabwe, 1980-2017
- 7. A brief history of urban youths in Zimbabwe, the first 40 years
- 8. âYouth Politicsâ
- 9. âSubverting Controlsâ: Historicising the Multi-dimensions of Female Youth Sexuality in Post-colonial Zimbabwe
- 10. Youth in Artisanal Gold Mining
- 11. Stranded and Straddling: Youth in Zimbabweâs Agricultural sector, 1980-2020
- 12. The Politics of Age, Gender and Sexuality in Zimbabweâs Popular Economies
- 13. Youth and Informality
- 14. Conclusion â Rory Pilossof
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