Africa's Urban Youth: Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship

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Amy S. Patterson (University of the South, Tennessee) Tracy Kuperus (Calvin University, Michigan)

Africa's Urban Youth

Challenging Marginalization, Claiming Citizenship

Amy S. Patterson (University of the South, Tennessee), Tracy Kuperus (Calvin University, Michigan), Megan Hershey (Whitworth University, Washington)

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Cambridge University Press
10 August 2023

Constitution: government & the state

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.

By: Amy S. Patterson (University of the South Tennessee), Tracy Kuperus (Calvin University, Michigan), Megan Hershey (Whitworth University, Washington)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009235143
ISBN 10: 1009235141
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 10 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amy S. Patterson is Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics at the University of the South. She has authored six books, including Africa & Global Health Governance (2018) and Dependent Agency & the Global Health Regime (2017), both of which were awarded prizes by the International Studies Association. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, her work has appeared in African Affairs, African Studies Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa Today, International Affairs, and Global Public Health. Tracy Kuperus is a Professor of Politics at Calvin University. Her research interests include religion and politics, democratization, and citizen mobilization. She has previously published When Helping Heals (co-author, 2017) and chapters in edited volumes, as well as journals such as African Affairs, Africa Today, and the Journal of Modern African Studies. Megan Hershey is a Professor of Political Science at Whitworth University. She is the author of Whose Agency: The Politics and Practice of Kenya's HIV-Prevention NGOs (2019). A Fulbright-Hays recipient, her work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Eastern African Studies, Development in Practice and Political Studies Review.