Engaging Children and Youth in Africa

Methodological and Phenomenological Issues

Mwenda Ntarangwi, Guy Massart, Mwenda Ntarangwi, Guy Massart

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9789956762743
• eBook ISBN: 9789956762279
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Representing research from east, central, west, and southern Africa, Engaging Children and Youth in Africa provides a well-balanced analysis of on-the-ground data with methodological and phenomenological issues that abound in much of research in Africa today. With an introduction that charts out some of the most critical approaches in African-centred research on children and youth, contributors to this volume give the reader a glimpse of the product of engaged research that places children and youth at the centre of analysis. The authors follow recent studies that have insisted on seeing African childhood and youth beyond constraining Western notions of vulnerability or innocence, to capture the ways in which recent advances in technology, the intensification of global processes, and continued weakening of the nation-state have not only contributed to new ways of being children and youth but how they have also provided a new lens through which to study social change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Notes on Contributors
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Professional Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Africa: New Directions for Research
• 2. New Directions in Child and Youth Research in Africa
• 3. “It is the Common Way but not the Normal Way”: Marriage, Household and Social Order in Accounts of African Youth
• 4. Children’s Lives and Children’s Voices: An Exploration of Popular Music’s Representation of Children in East Africa
• 5. Teenage Girls, Cell Phones and Perceptions of Autonomy: Examples from Molyko Neighbourhood, South West Region, Cameroon
• 6. Street Dialogue Spaces: Youth and the Reshaping of Public Political Process in Côte d’Ivoire
• 7. The City Production Process: Ouagadougou Youth, Street Culture and New Forms of Engaging with Burkina Faso’s Political Sphere
• Index
• Back cover