Includes bibliographical references.

Evasive youth, oblique politics / Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpaa -- Part 1. Envisioning -- A question of power / Danai S Mupotsa -- On friendship and youth activism in pre-revolutionary Egypt / Henri Onodera -- Respectful resistance. Young musicians and the unfinished revolution in Tunisia / Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpaa and Afifa Ltifi -- Egyptian youth-led civil society organizations: alternative spaces for civic engagement? / Ehaab D. Abdou McGill and Loubna H. Skalli -- Taking the forbidden space - graffiti and resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia / Mulumebet Zenebe -- Post-revolutionary Tunisian youth art: the effect of contestation on the democratization of art production and consumption / Mounir Saidani -- Part 2. Entitlement -- The politics of inclusion and exclusion in urban Burkina Faso / Jesper Bjarnesen -- Hustling for rights: political engagements with sand in northern Kenya / Nanna Jordt Jorgensen -- "Acholi youth are lost": young, Christian and (a)political in Uganda / Henni Alava -- Struggling for new communicative spaces: young media producers and politics in the Republic of Benin / Tilo Gratz -- Transnational engagement: return migrant women in Somaliland / Mariko Sato -- Part 3. Embeddedness -- Salafi youth on campus in Niamey, Niger: moral motives, political ends / Abdoulaye Sounaye -- Patronage and ethnicity amongst politically active young Kenyans / Eija Ranta -- Political violence in Zimbabwe's National Youth Service, 2001-2007 / Ivo Mhike -- Students' participation in and contribution to political and social change in Ethiopia / Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Ronning Balsvik -- Child participation in Ghana: responsibilities and rights / Þora Bjornsdottir and Jonina Einarsdottir -- Diaspora as a multilevel political space for young Somalis / Paivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira -- Addressing sexual violence in South Africa: ?gender activism in the making? / Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane.

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