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There are numerous studies by scholars and policy-makers about youth, particularly youth in the developing world. Many of these studies fall under two categories: the youth as a market, or the youth as either a demographic dividend or a demographic time-bomb. The youth tend to be studied out of curiosity – an anthropological subject that is observed but not engaged. This book presents a paradigm shift in how youth is studied. It offers insights into the complex contradictions, geo-histories, ideologies and experiences that shape the present realities and futures of South African youth. It presents youth not only as products of history, but as architects of new thinking and imaginations that are futuristic. -- Malaika Mahlatsi, Bestselling Author of Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation and Corridors of Death: The Struggle to Exist in Historically White Institutions

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Botshabelo Maja is a specialist on youth matters, particularly working class youth and the challenges they face in deriving meaning out of their lives. He works as a senior government official in South Africa. Busani Ngcaweni is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and Visiting Adjunct Professor at Wits School of Governance, South Africa.

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