African Childhoods: Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction African Childhoods: Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Are the Barrels Empty? Are The Children Any Safer? Child Domestic Labor and Servitude in Ghana....Pages 19-32
Matches But No Fire: Street Children in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania....Pages 33-46
Youth Agency and Survival Strategies in Sierra Leone’s Postwar Informal Economy....Pages 47-59
Turkana Children’s Contributions To Subsistence and Household Ecology in Kenya....Pages 61-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Children Who Take Care of Other Children in the Suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique....Pages 81-94
Seen But Not Heard: African Orphanhood in the Age Of Hiv/Aids....Pages 95-108
Militarization, Generational Conflict, and the Eritrean Refugee Crisis....Pages 109-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Representing Youth: School Dramas and Youth Authority in Ghana....Pages 127-140
Conceptualizing the Child: An Analysis of Early Childhood Care and Education Policy in Tanzania....Pages 141-155
Striving For Knowledge and Dignity: Young Qur’Anic Students in Kano, Nigeria....Pages 157-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Dinka Youth and the Culture of Formal Schooling in Postconflict South Sudan....Pages 173-186
Educating Postconflict Societies: Lessons From Rwanda and Liberia....Pages 187-200
Our Voice: Public Health and Youths’ Communication For Social Change in Senegal....Pages 201-217
Painting a Picture of Creative Arts Therapy For War-Affected Youth in Northern Uganda....Pages 219-233
Conclusions: The Next Generation of African Children....Pages 235-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-262