THE INDIVIDUATION PROCESS AND SOCIABILITY AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF BUJUMBURA

Abstract

Burundi has been a theater of poverty and civil war that occurred to most children’s and youth’s rights violations. However, they thrive to have their right to association. We used documentary techniques combined with paying visits to identified places to collect data. We used deductive analysis of data while referencing with Zotero software. Results reveal that youth in Bujumbura live in poverty. They work for most of them in domestic work as “ababoyi” for boys and as “abayaya” for girls. Some who have finished their studies, especially those with Bachelor’s degrees are working as ‘Ecokash’ or ‘Lumicash’ money and airtime transferring. They are also a portion of youth living along the streets in Bujumbura, a very dangerous life. Even though these cited cases are signs of hardship in youth life in Bujumbura, they still try to perform their associative life with the help of ‘Centre JeuneKamenge’, paying visits to one another, taking part in cultural games, cultural clubs, or the inclusion in a new dynamic and the National youth council even though viewed by some as though it is divisionist.