The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change, and Politics in Africa

by Alcinda Honwana

Book Overview

Most young Africans are living in waithood, a period of suspension between childhood and adulthood. Failed neo-liberal economic policies, bad governance and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear-without jobs that pay living wages, these young people cannot support families, thus becoming fully participating members of society. As this limbo becomes pervasive and prolonged, waithood in Africa becomes seemingly permanent, gradually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565494725
• ISBN13: 9781565494725
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Kumarian Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"