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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    August 2023
    August 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009235136
    9781009235174
    9781009235143
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009235136
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.56kg, 284 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.42kg, 284 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Politics and International Relations, African Government, Politics and Policy, African History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Politics and International Relations, African Government, Politics and Policy, African History
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    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.

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