This project employs an ethnographic approach to explore how African youths are trying to build their careers while negotiating their surrounding “reality” and attempting to put future plans into practice. In African countries where growth, tourism, ICT, and higher education are advancing (partly due to recent educational policies), young people disobey traditional authority and seek freedom in the vast opportunities offered through contact with foreigners beyond Africa’s boarders. With the shrinking of the globe facilitated by expanding information networks, young people have to deal with dynamic problems in an opportunistic and situational manner. By describing and analyzing young Africans’ “current” perceptions and practices, we will clarify the dynamics of young people in eastern Africa in the global era.
Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “The study of ‘Cohabitat family’ with elite single and house girl in the cities of East African countries” (Principal Investigator: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) Project Number: 17K02002)
Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa”,Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “The study of ‘Cohabitat family’ with elite single and house girl in the cities of East African countries” (Principal Investigator: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) Project Number: 17K02002)
Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa”,Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “The study of ‘Cohabitat family’ with elite single and house girl in the cities of East African countries” (Principal Investigator: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) Project Number: 17K02002)
Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa”,Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “The study of ‘Cohabitat family’ with elite single and house girl in the cities of East African countries” (Principal Investigator: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) Project Number: 17K02002)
1. Keiya HANABUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkaido Medical University)
“Migration and Solidarity: Comorian Youth Diaspora in Transnational Social Space”
2. Takuma OTANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Graduate School of Kyoto University)
“Formation of group norms and maintenance of order by voluntary organizations for motorcycle taxi drivers in urban Uganda” (tentative)
Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa”,Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “The study of ‘Cohabitat family’ with elite single and house girl in the cities of East African countries” (Principal Investigator: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) Project Number: 17K02002)
1. Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)
Introduction
2. All members of this project
“The condition of Youths in my field: concerning this project”
Date/Time: Sat 28 Jan 2023– Sun 29 Jan 2023 9:00–19:00
Venue: 303, Online meeting
Language: English
Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Principal Investigator: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) Project Number: 22H00769), Field Science Center (FSC), African Studies Center, TUFS
Theme Abstract:
Despite the international development organizations’ efforts toward mitigation of learner single motherhood, early pregnancies, and HIV prevalence among societies in Africa, these issues have remained persistently incremental in the last one decade and more recently worsened during COVID-19 pandemic. Menstrual poverty and related WASH problems remain systemic. What explains this trend? Prior to colonial invasion, sexuality was central to every society whereby the family was the educational pivot. The events that followed colonial occupation repositioned the sexuality values toward ‘presumed modernity’. The transitioning from the traditional to the ‘presumed modern’ practices has mutated into dynamic between-ness. In this symposium, we ethnographically interrogate this between-ness and associated complications. We tackle the sensitivities of sexuality in some societies and address the cultural, religious, and political dimensions of sexual education and practices. We identify the existential gaps in the sexual education in the life cycle of a ‘presumed modern African’ society.