African Childhoods

PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHILD SURVIVAL IN AFRICA: AGENCY, LABOR AND SUBSISTENCE African Childhoods: Education, Development, and Peacebuilding in the Youngest Continent; M.O.Ensor Are the Barrels Empty? Are the Children any Safer? Child Domestic Labor and Servitude in Ghana; C.N.Derby Matches but No Fire: Street Children and the State in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; C.M.Wagner , E.D.Lyimo & S.Lwendo Youth Agency and Survival Strategies in Sierra Leone's Post-war Informal Economy; J.I.Lahai Turkana Children's Contributions to Subsistence and Household Ecology in Kenya; T.Y.Watkins PART II: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF AFRICAN CHILDREN: KINSHIP, HARDSHIP, AND COMMUNITY Children who Take Care of other Children in the Suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique; E.Colonna Seen but not Heard: African Orphanhood as Lived Experience; K.E.Cheney Militarization, Generational Conflict, and the Eritrean Refugee Crisis; T.M.R.Hepner PART III: THE HUMAN CAPITAL OF AFRICAN CHILDREN: YOUTH VOICES AND SCHOOLING IN THE YOUNGEST CONTINENT Representing Youth: School Dramas and Youth Authority in Ghana; C.Coe Conceptualizing the Child: An Analysis of Early Childhood Care and Education Policy in Tanzania; B.C.Wilinski Striving for Knowledge and Dignity:Young Qur'anic Students in Kano, Nigeria; H.Hoechner PART IV:AFRICAN CHILDREN AS POLITICAL ACTORS: CHILD-INCLUSIVE VIEWS ON PEACEBUILDING AND SOCIAL CHANGE Dinka Youth and the Culture of Formal Schooling in Post-conflict South Sudan; A.I.Epstein Educating Postconflict Societies: Lessons from Rwanda and Liberia; F.E.Godwyll & S.Magadla Our Voice: Public Health and Youths' Communication for Social Change in Senegal; L.J.Felt & A.Rideau Painting a Picture of Expressive Arts Therapy for War-Affected Youth in Northern Uganda; J.R.Hanebrink & A.J.Smith The Next Generation of African Children; M.O.Ensor