Young men and women in Africa

Aguilar, Mario (ed.) (2007) Rethinking Age in Africa: Colonial, Postcolonial and Contemporary Interpretations of Cultural Representations. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press .

Christiansen, Cathrine , Utas, Mats and Vigh, Henrik (eds) (2006) Navigating Youth Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstituttet .

O’Brien, Donald Cruise (1996) ‘A Lost Generation? Youth Identity and State Decay in West Africa’, in Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger (eds) Postcolonial Identities in Africa, pp. 55–74. London: Zed Books .

Davison, Jean (1996) Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women 1910–1995. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers .

Diouf, Mamadou (2003) ‘ Engaging Postcolonial Culture: African Youth and Public Space ’, African Studies Review 46(2): 1–12 .

Durham, Deborah (2004) ‘ Disappearing Youth: Youth as a Social Shifter in Botswana ’, American Ethnologist 31(4): 589–605 .

Frederiksen, Bodil F. (2000) ‘ Popular Culture, Gender Relations and the Democratization of Everyday Life in Kenya ,’ Journal of Southern African Studies 26(2): 209–23 .

Frederiksen, Bodil F. (2007) ‘Politics, Popular Culture and Livelihood Strategies among Young Men in a Nairobi Slum’, in Patrick Chabal , Leo de Haan and Ulf Engel (eds) African Alternatives, pp 73–93. Leiden: Brill Publishers .

Hansen, Karen T. (2005) ‘ Getting Stuck in the Compound: Some Odds against Social Adulthood in Lusaka, Zambia ’, Africa Today 5(4): 3–18 .

Hudson, Valerie and Boer, Andrea (2002) ‘ A Surplus of Men, A Deficit of Peace: Security and Sex Ratios in Asia’s Largest States ’, International Security 26(4): 5–38 .

Kagwanja, Peter M. (2003) ‘ “Power to Uhuru”: Youth Identity and Generational Politics in Kenya’s 2002 elections ’, African Affairs 105(418): 51–77 .

Rashid, Ismail (1997) ‘ Subaltern Reactions: Lumpen, Students and the Left ’, Africa Development XXII(3/4): 19–45 .

Spronk, Rachel (2005) ‘ Female Sexuality in Nairobi: Flawed or Favoured? ’ Culture, Health & Sexuality 7(3): 267–79 .

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) (2006) Youth and Violent Conflict: Society and Development in Crisis? New York: Bureau for Crisis Prevention .

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (2005) Youth and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention. Washington DC: Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation .

Urdal, Henrik (2004) ‘The Devil in the Demographics: The Effect of Youth Bulges on Domestic Armed Conflict, 1950–2000’, Social Development Papers: Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Paper, No. 14, Washington, DC: World Bank .

Venkatesh, Sudhir and Kassimir, Ronald (2007) Youth, Globalization, and the Law. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press .

Vigh, Henrik (2006) Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and Soldiering in Guinea Bissau. Berhahn Books: Oxford .

Whyte, Susan Reynolds , Alber, Erdmute and van der Geest, Sjaak (2008) ‘Generational connections and conflicts in Africa: an introduction’, in Erdmute Alber , Sjaak van der Geest and Susan Reynolds Whyte (eds) Generations in Africa. Connections and Conflicts, pp. 1–23. Berlin: LIT Verlag .

World Bank (2006) World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation. Washington, DC: World Bank .

World Bank (2009) Youth and Employment in Africa — The Potential, the Problem, the Promise. Washington, DC: World Bank .