{"title":"Introduction: Young people working for better lives in West and Central Africa","authors":"Christian Ungruhe, Ute Röschenthaler, M. Diawara","doi":"10.4000/CEA.3543","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"After more than a decade of emphasizing African children’s and youth’s agencies, possibilities and creativities in more or less challenging social, political and economic environments (see Bordonaro & Carvalho, 2010; Christiansen, Utas, & Vigh, 2006; Honwana & de Boeck, 2005; Martin, Ungruhe, & Haberlein, 2016; Spittler & Bourdillon, 2012), other recent studies increasingly highlight the young people’s powerlessness, bleak presents and uncertain futures. Doing so, the image of an enduring soc...","PeriodicalId":37917,"journal":{"name":"Cadernos de Estudos Africanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cadernos de Estudos Africanos","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CEA.3543","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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After more than a decade of emphasizing African children’s and youth’s agencies, possibilities and creativities in more or less challenging social, political and economic environments (see Bordonaro & Carvalho, 2010; Christiansen, Utas, & Vigh, 2006; Honwana & de Boeck, 2005; Martin, Ungruhe, & Haberlein, 2016; Spittler & Bourdillon, 2012), other recent studies increasingly highlight the young people’s powerlessness, bleak presents and uncertain futures. Doing so, the image of an enduring soc...
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Cadernos de Estudos Africanos is a journal published by the Centro de Estudos Internacionais of ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon focusing on an academic approach to Africa. It welcomes the collaboration of the international scientific community, who specializes in the Social Sciences branch of African Studies, and it is particularly committed to an internationalizing scope, following a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary envisioning. The journal publishes articles in four languages, Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, and it has been a regular biannual publication since its first issue (July 2001).