Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas Podcasts

Podcast: From Below, New Youth Politics in Africa

June 23, 2021

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Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.

From Angola to Tunisia to Sudan, how are youth mobilisations shaping African politics ‘from below’? Alcinda Honwana delivers an unforgettable account of the revolutionary fervour that has swept the continent explaining why youth social movements have struggled to pair street intervention with more sustainable forms of policy and governance engagement.

*Alcinda Honwana is one of the Age of Agitation series co-editors; the views expressed in this article represent the author and do not necessarily represent the United Nations.

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Alcinda Honwana

Alcinda Honwana is a leading scholar on youth, protests movements and social change in Africa. Honwana is currently Inter-Regional Adviser on social development policy at the United Nations in New York. She has been a Centennial Professor and the Strategic Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Chair in International Development at the Open University, UK.