Screen LibraryNew perspectives on African childhood : constructions, histories, representations and understandings /
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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| Published: |
Vernon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Wilmington, Delaware, United States : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Vernon series in sociology. |
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| Carrier Form: | xlvi, 232 pages : forms ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781622737123 (paperback) : 1622737121 (paperback) 9781622735341 (hardcover) 162273534X (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | HQ792 |
| CLC: | D740.85 |
| Call Number: | D740.85/N532 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Omo boti and Omo pako: social construction of childhood, livelihood and health in Southwestern Nigeria / Our stones, our livelihood: urban working children's survival strategy and its implications in the Daglama Quarry Site in the Ho Municipality of Ghana / Childhood in Africa: health and wellness in body, mind, soul, and spirit / Efua Sutherland and African children's literature: representations of postcolonial childhood / On the innocence of beasts: African child soldiers in Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation / Boys and girls in the bush, bosses in post-conflict society: Liberian young veterans rising to power / White poverty, state paternalism and educational reforms in Southern Rhodesia in the 1930s / Childhoods rooted in land: connecting child development to land using cultural practices of the IsiXhosa speaking people of South Africa / "Adults are just absolete children...": child fancy dress parades as a carnivalesque suspension of adultism in Winneba, Ghana / Mending the broken fences: a study of the socialized and de-socialized child in Laye's The African Child and Kouroma's Allah Is Not Obliged / Epilogue / |