What politics?: Youth and political engagement in Africa

Evasive youth, oblique politics /Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpaa --Part 1. Envisioning --A question of power /Danai S Mupotsa --On friendship and youth activism in pre-revolutionary Egypt /Henri Onodera --Respectful resistance. Young musicians and the unfinished revolution in Tunisia /Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpaa and Afifa Ltifi --Egyptian youth-led civil society organizations: alternative spaces for civic engagement? /Ehaab D. Abdou McGill and Loubna H. Skalli --Taking the forbidden space -- graffiti and resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia /Mulumebet Zenebe --Post-revolutionary Tunisian youth art: the effect of contestation on the democratization of art production and consumption /Mounir Saidani --Part 2. Entitlement --The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban Burkina Faso /Jesper Bjarnesen --Hustling for rights: political engagements with sand in northern Kenya /Nanna Jordt Jorgensen --"Acholi youth are lost": young, Christian and (a)political in Uganda /Henni Alava --Struggling for new communicative spaces: young media producers and politics in the Republic of Benin /Tilo Gratz --Transnational engagement: return migrant women in Somaliland /Mariko Sato --Part 3. Embeddedness --Salafi youth on campus in Niamey, Niger: moral motives, political ends /Abdoulaye Sounaye --Patronage and ethnicity amongst politically active young Kenyans /Eija Ranta --Political violence in Zimbabwe's National Youth Service, 2001-2007 /Ivo Mhike --Students' participation in and contribution to political and social change in Ethiopia /Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Ronning Balsvik --Child participation in Ghana: responsibilities and rights /Þora Bjornsdottir and Jonina Einarsdottir --Diaspora as a multilevel political space for young Somalis /Paivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira --Addressing sexual violence in South Africa: 'gender activism in the making' /Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane.

What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today's Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions.