'Enough!': Will Youth Protests Drive Political Change in Africa?

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, London, WC2A 3LJ

LSE public lecture by Alcinda Honwana, Open University Visiting Professor in International Development. Free to attend.

Professor Alcinda Honwana is Director of the Africa Program of the Social Science Research Council, New York, and author of The Time of Youth: Work, Politics, and Social Change in Africa (Kumarian Press, 2012) and Youth and Revolution in Tunisia (Zed Books, 2013).

Abstract
Disaffected African young people risk their lives to try to reach Europe. Others join radical groups such as Boko Haram, Al-Shabab and Islamic State. Angry young unemployed South Africans were behind xenophobic attacks there. Youths protesting their socio-economic and political marginalisation have changed governments in Tunisia and Senegal.

One-third of Africans are between the ages of 10 and 24. They are better educated than their parents and have higher expectations. But they are less likely to have jobs or political influence. Young Africans are organising in many ways, and are making their voices heard. How will they force governments to listen?

Read more on the London School of Economics website.

Read Alcinda's guest post on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power blog.