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Title African youth and the persistence of marginalization : employment, politics and prospects for change / edited by Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in African development
Routledge studies in African development.
Contents Introduction: African youth at a crossroads / Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow -- Youth employment prospects in Africa / James Thurlow -- Protesting for a better tomorrow? Youth mobilization in Africa / Danielle Resnick -- Cities of youth : post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements : prospecting a mineralized future / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- Young people, agriculture and employment in rural Africa / James Sumberg, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Michael Chasukwa, Blessings Chinsinga, Jennifer Leavy, Getnet Tadele, Stephen Whitfield, and Joseph Yaro -- Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Moses Oketch -- The success of learnerships : lessons from South Africa's training and education programme / Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts, and Volker Schöer -- Conclusions: moving beyond conventional wisdoms / Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow
Summary The much heralded growth and transformation of many economies in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade continues to receive prominent attention in academic scholarship and among policy practitioners. An apparent feature about this transformation, however, is that Africa's youth appear to have been left out. This book critically examines the extent and consequences of the marginalization of African youth. It questions conventional wisdoms about data trends, aspirational goals, and common policy interventions surrounding Africa's youth that have been variously propagated in both the development studies literature and in mainstream donor policy reports. The book explores macro trends from both a temporal and cross-regional perspective in order to highlight what is distinct about contemporary African youth and whether their prospects and behaviours do actually vary from their counterparts in other regions of the world or from previous generations of African youth. Such studies include cross-country analyses of youth employment patterns and modes of political participation, in-depth examination of the behaviours and aspirations of the urban youth, and critical reflections on the impact of rural employment initiatives, vocational education, and learnership programmes. The incorporation of multiple methods and disciplines, as well as its attention to policy issues, ensures that the book will be of great interest to graduate students, researchers, and professional researchers whose work lies at the intersection of African area studies and development studies as well as those focused on development economics, political science, and public policy and administration
Notes "United Nations University, UNU-WIDER."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 17, 2015)
Subject Youth -- Africa -- Social conditions
Youth -- Africa -- Economic conditions
Youth -- Employment -- Africa
Marginality, Social -- Africa
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Marginality, Social
Youth -- Economic conditions
Youth -- Employment
Youth -- Social conditions
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Resnick, Danielle, 1980- editor.
Thurlow, James (Development economist), editor.
World Institute for Development Economics Research
ISBN 9781138829473
1138829471
9781317571049
1317571045
9781315737768
1315737760