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Author: Alcinda Honwana

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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.

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    By Alcinda Honwana
    June 23, 2021
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    Podcast: From Below, New Youth Politics in Africa

    Age of Agitation Series: From Below, Youth Politics in Africa Podcast (Oxford Lecture)
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  • Age of Agitation SeriesDebating IdeasDemocracy and ElectionsTunisiaYouth Politics
    By Alcinda Honwana
    April 7, 2021
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    The Revolution Continues: Young Tunisians Are Back in the Streets

    Age of Agitation Series: Tunisia's Youth Back in the Street
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  • ActivismAge of Agitation SeriesDebating IdeasDemocracy and ElectionsGender PoliticsMozambiquePan Africanismsocial movementsSpecialised SeriesYouth Politics
    By Alcinda Honwana
    March 17, 2021
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    Change Will Come from Us: A Conversation with Quitéria Guirengane

    Age of Agitation Series: Young Female Political Activism in Mozambique
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    By Alcinda Honwana
    December 7, 2015
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    Enough! Will youth protests drive social change in Africa?

    Uncertain, unable to find secure jobs, and caught in the liminal state of ‘waithood’, young people are angry and are on the march across the world. Young ...
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