Dr Paul Ugor is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal. His research interests are in African Literatures and Cultures, Postcolonial Studies, and New Media Cultures in the Global South. Lord C. Mawuko-Yevugah is currently based in Accra, Ghana and teaches global development policy and comparative political economy at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is the author of Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana (Ashgate, July 2014).

’This volume provides engaging and ground-breaking analyses of the intersections of African youth experiences and a hegemonic global neo-liberal agenda. The chapters illuminate the myriad socioeconomic paradoxes that Africa’s youth confront in an age of globalization and brings a much needed Africanist perspective to the growing discourse on youth cultures.’ Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University, Canada ’This important, timely reader effectively responds to current social and cultural locations of African youth who face multiple marginalizations imposed by neoliberal globalization and its attachments of declining educational and job prospects. It certainly achieves a much needed scholarly intervention that critically but admirably juxtaposes contextual realities with people’s survivability strategies that refuse the usual portrayals of victimhood and powerlessness.’ Ali A. Abdi, The University of British Columbia, Canada ’The fallout of the 2008 economic crisis touched lives across the globe, but the chapters of this book document, with rich, original research, just how profound the impact has been on young people in Africa. These insights, drawn from case studies across the continent, show that youth have responded with resilience and ingenuity, activism and anger. African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World is an excellent contribution and is highly recommended.’ David Pratten, Oxford University, UK

• 1: Introduction; 2: African Youth and Global Resistance to Neoliberalism; 3: Power and Resistance; 4: Individualization, Masculinities and Young Men in Mozambique 1; 5: Youth Artivism in Uganda; 6: Oil Capitalism, Precarity, and Youth Resistance to Slow Violence in Nigeria's Oil Delta 1; 7: Humble Living and Hustling; 8: Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World; 9: Dialectics of Subversion; 10: Coz Ov Moni; 11: Singing Everyday Life; 12: African Popular Culture and the Path of Consciousness; 13: Gendered Spaces

Dr Paul Ugor is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal. His research interests are in African Literatures and Cultures, Postcolonial Studies, and New Media Cultures in the Global South. Lord C. Mawuko-Yevugah is currently based in Accra, Ghana and teaches global development policy and comparative political economy at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is the author of Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana (Ashgate, July 2014).

’This volume provides engaging and ground-breaking analyses of the intersections of African youth experiences and a hegemonic global neo-liberal agenda. The chapters illuminate the myriad socioeconomic paradoxes that Africa’s youth confront in an age of globalization and brings a much needed Africanist perspective to the growing discourse on youth cultures.’ Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University, Canada ’This important, timely reader effectively responds to current social and cultural locations of African youth who face multiple marginalizations imposed by neoliberal globalization and its attachments of declining educational and job prospects. It certainly achieves a much needed scholarly intervention that critically but admirably juxtaposes contextual realities with people’s survivability strategies that refuse the usual portrayals of victimhood and powerlessness.’ Ali A. Abdi, The University of British Columbia, Canada ’The fallout of the 2008 economic crisis touched lives across the globe, but the chapters of this book document, with rich, original research, just how profound the impact has been on young people in Africa. These insights, drawn from case studies across the continent, show that youth have responded with resilience and ingenuity, activism and anger. African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World is an excellent contribution and is highly recommended.’ David Pratten, Oxford University, UK

• 1: Introduction; 2: African Youth and Global Resistance to Neoliberalism; 3: Power and Resistance; 4: Individualization, Masculinities and Young Men in Mozambique 1; 5: Youth Artivism in Uganda; 6: Oil Capitalism, Precarity, and Youth Resistance to Slow Violence in Nigeria's Oil Delta 1; 7: Humble Living and Hustling; 8: Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World; 9: Dialectics of Subversion; 10: Coz Ov Moni; 11: Singing Everyday Life; 12: African Popular Culture and the Path of Consciousness; 13: Gendered Spaces

Dr Paul Ugor is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal. His research interests are in African Literatures and Cultures, Postcolonial Studies, and New Media Cultures in the Global South. Lord C. Mawuko-Yevugah is currently based in Accra, Ghana and teaches global development policy and comparative political economy at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is the author of Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana (Ashgate, July 2014).

’This volume provides engaging and ground-breaking analyses of the intersections of African youth experiences and a hegemonic global neo-liberal agenda. The chapters illuminate the myriad socioeconomic paradoxes that Africa’s youth confront in an age of globalization and brings a much needed Africanist perspective to the growing discourse on youth cultures.’ Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University, Canada ’This important, timely reader effectively responds to current social and cultural locations of African youth who face multiple marginalizations imposed by neoliberal globalization and its attachments of declining educational and job prospects. It certainly achieves a much needed scholarly intervention that critically but admirably juxtaposes contextual realities with people’s survivability strategies that refuse the usual portrayals of victimhood and powerlessness.’ Ali A. Abdi, The University of British Columbia, Canada ’The fallout of the 2008 economic crisis touched lives across the globe, but the chapters of this book document, with rich, original research, just how profound the impact has been on young people in Africa. These insights, drawn from case studies across the continent, show that youth have responded with resilience and ingenuity, activism and anger. African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World is an excellent contribution and is highly recommended.’ David Pratten, Oxford University, UK

• 1: Introduction; 2: African Youth and Global Resistance to Neoliberalism; 3: Power and Resistance; 4: Individualization, Masculinities and Young Men in Mozambique 1; 5: Youth Artivism in Uganda; 6: Oil Capitalism, Precarity, and Youth Resistance to Slow Violence in Nigeria's Oil Delta 1; 7: Humble Living and Hustling; 8: Information and Communication Technologies and African Youth in a Globalized World; 9: Dialectics of Subversion; 10: Coz Ov Moni; 11: Singing Everyday Life; 12: African Popular Culture and the Path of Consciousness; 13: Gendered Spaces