Preface and Acknowledgements IX
List of Figures XII
Notes on Contributors XIII
List of Abbreviations XX
1
Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics 1
Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpää
Part 1
Envisioning
2
A Question of Power 23
Danai S. Mupotsa
3
Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt 42
Henri Onodera
Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpää and Afifa Ltifi
5
Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement? 75
Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli
6
Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 95
Mulumebet Zenebe
7
Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption 111
Mounir Saidani
Part 2
Entitlement
8
The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso 125
Jesper Bjarnesen
9
Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya 141
10
“Acholi Youth Are Lost”: Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda 158
Henni Alava
11
Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin 179
Tilo Grätz
12
Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland 194
Mariko Sato
Part 3
Embeddedness
13
Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends 211
Abdoulaye Sounaye
14
Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans 230
Eija Ranta
15
Political Violence in Zimbabwe’s National Youth Service, 2001–2007 246
Ivo Mhike
16
Students’ Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia 265
Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Rønning Balsvik
17
Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights 285
Þóra Björnsdóttir and Jónína Einarsdóttir
18
Päivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira
19
Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: ‘Gender activism in the making’ 317
Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane
Index 337