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Youth And Politics: Is There Space For Youth In Cabo-Verdean Politics?, Aleida Mendes Borges
Youth And Politics: Is There Space For Youth In Cabo-Verdean Politics?, Aleida Mendes Borges
Journal of Cape Verdean Studies
All over Africa young people face serious economic, social and emotional challenges in their everyday lives as the generation hardest hit by the failures of neoliberalism (Honwana 2012). In the absence of political role models, this so-called ‘waithood generation’, has rejected traditionally understood notions of political participation associated with representative democracy and are taking the role of active citizens moving away from the ‘myopic obsession’ over voting and party systems.
In Cabo Verde in particular, where politics are characterised by vertical relations of everyday political life and citizen-state interactions, this paper analyses young people as a window to understanding broader …