Governance, Security and Culture: Assessing Africa’s Youth Bulge
Although Africa has a youth-dominated population, African government policies are often not youth-centered and African governments and their international supporters are frequently under-informed about the priorities of most youth. Reliance on the “youth bulge and instability thesis” leads to distor...
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University of Bielefeld
2011-11-01
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| description | Although Africa has a youth-dominated population, African government policies are often not youth-centered and African governments and their international supporters are frequently under-informed about the priorities of most youth. Reliance on the “youth bulge and instability thesis” leads to distorted assessments of everyday realities. Examination of the lives, priorities, and cultural contexts of African youth, and the cases of youth in Rwanda and Burundi in particular, shows that the nature of relations between the state and massive populations of young, marginalized, and alienated citizens directly impacts the governance, security, and development prospects of African nations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5b7152f3c954131a4cea0a9631495612022-12-22T01:18:47ZengUniversity of BielefeldInternational Journal of Conflict and Violence1864-13852011-11-015210.4119/ijcv-2874Governance, Security and Culture: Assessing Africa’s Youth BulgeMarc Sommers0Boston UniversityAlthough Africa has a youth-dominated population, African government policies are often not youth-centered and African governments and their international supporters are frequently under-informed about the priorities of most youth. Reliance on the “youth bulge and instability thesis” leads to distorted assessments of everyday realities. Examination of the lives, priorities, and cultural contexts of African youth, and the cases of youth in Rwanda and Burundi in particular, shows that the nature of relations between the state and massive populations of young, marginalized, and alienated citizens directly impacts the governance, security, and development prospects of African nations.https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/2874 |
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