Article: Alcinda Honwana and Filip De Boeck (eds), Makers and Breakers: children and youth in postcolonial Africa.(Book review)

ALCINDA HONWANA and FILIP DE BOECK (eds), Makers and Breakers: children and youth in postcolonial Africa. Oxford: James Currey (pb 16.95 [pounds sterling]--978 0 8525 5434 0). 2005, 320 pp.

This book appeared some years ago but deserves attention due to its original contribution to youth studies in/on Africa that are reassessing the role of young people in Africa as versatile social and political actors. It is a quite fascinating collection of, mostly, empirically based studies on children and young people in Africa, and expresses the emergence of a wider general interest in the subject, not only among academics bur also among governments, NGOs and international ...

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