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Vanguard Or Vandals

Paperback • 2005 • English

Vanguard Or Vandals: Youth, Politics And Conflict In Africa (AFRICAN DYNAMICS, 4)

By Jon Abbink

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About the book

This book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being con...Show more

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ISBN

9789004142756

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Vanguard Or Vandals

Format

Paperback

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