Research Catalog

Title

Children and youth in the labour process in Africa / edited by Osita Agbu.

Publication

Dakar : Council for the Developement of Social Science Research in Africa ; Oxford, U.K. : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Agbu, Osita.
• Codesria.

Description

227 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

It is increasingly clear that children and the youth today play a significant role in the labour process in Africa. But, to what extent is this role benign? And when and why does this role become exploitative rather than beneficial? This book on children and the youth in Africa sets out to address these questions. The book observes that in Africa today, children are under pressure to work, often engaged in the worst forms of child labour and therefore not living out their role as children. It argues that the social and economic environment of the African child is markedly different from what obtains elsewhere, and goes further to challenge all factors that have combined in stripping children of their childhood and turning them into instruments and commodities in the labour process. It also explains the sources, dynamics, magnitude and likely consequences of the exploitation of children and the youth in contemporary Africa. The book is obviously an invaluable contribution to the discourse on children, while the case studies are aimed at creating more awareness about the development problems of children and the youth in Africa, with a view to evolving more effective national and global responses.

Series Statement

Codesria book series

Uniform Title

Codesria book series.

Subjects

• Child labor > Law and legislation > Africa
• Child labor > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• English and French.

Contents

Introduction : children and youth in the labour process / Osota Agbu -- Child labour in contemporary africa : issues and challenges / Osita Agbu -- Getting them young : child labour in Ikot Ekpene from a historical perspective / Mfom Umorem Ekpo-Otu -- Economic crises and child trafficking in Nigeria : a comparative analysis of the 1930s and 1990s / Rasheed Olaniyi -- Children exploitation in the labour process : empirical exposition from Ile-Ife, Nigeria / Olu Torimiro -- Internal child trafficking in Nigeria : transcending legal borders / Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi -- Le phénomène "videomégon" : une autre forme de traffic d'enfant dans la ville de Cotonou -- A. Ludovic Couao-Zotti -- Problématique du travail des enfants et les stratégies de survie au Congo Brazzaville / Ngodi Etanislas -- Étude sur le travail des enfants dans l'agriculture : région de Meknès--Tafilalet, Maroc / Hassan Khalouki -- Problématique de la prostitution infanto-juvénile à Kinshasa : cas des "Tshel" / Jose Mvuezolo Bazonzi -- Enfants et jeunes dans le métier de la danse au sein des groupes musicaux modernes à Kinshasa / Leon Tsambu Bulu -- Conclusion / Osita Agbu.

Call Number

JBE 12-804

ISBN

• 9782869782518 (pbk.)
• 2869782519 (pbk.)

LCCN

2009324281

OCLC

426125567

Title

Children and youth in the labour process in Africa / edited by Osita Agbu.

Imprint

Dakar : Council for the Developement of Social Science Research in Africa ; Oxford, U.K. : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, c2009.

Series

Codesria book series

Codesria book series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

English and French.

Added Author

Agbu, Osita.

Codesria.

Research Call Number

JBE 12-804