Dealing with Elusive Futures - University Graduates in Urban Africa

The time to come - as well as the exploration thereof - remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.
The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young graduates having obtained a university degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to socially grow older by doing adulthood in contexts of great uncertainty.
The examples include Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mali and Tanzania, visually enriched through pictures taken by young Malian photographers.

About the author

Noemi Steuer (PhD) is a social anthropologist at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.
Michelle Engeler (PhD) works at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel. Her research interests focus on youth, political change and mobility, particularly in West Africa.
Elísio Macamo (Prof.) is a sociologist at the Departement of Social Sciences and the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michell Engeler (Editor), Michelle Engeler (Editor), Elísio Macamo (Editor), Noemi Steuer (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 226 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: farbige Abbildungen
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis; Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology