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21 Precarity, Fixers, and New Imaginative Subjectivities of Youth in Urban Cameroon
Get accessDr. Divine Fuh has researched Botswana, Cameroon, South Africa, and Senegal. His research focuses on the politics of suffering and smiling, particularly on how urban youth seek ways of smiling in the midst of their suffering. His most recent project focuses on the political economy of Pan-African knowledge production. Fuh is Cameroonian, a social anthropologist and Director of HUMA—Institute for Humanities Africa at the University of Cape Town. He joined the project to offer alternative thinking on African youth and masculinities beyond the discourse of toxicity.
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Published:10 November 2020
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Abstract
This essay explores how it may be possible to dismantle and recreate frameworks for understanding youth agency and precarity in African cities. These are places where youth are regularly portrayed as toxic. The essay reflects and builds on an emerging body of literature that approaches youth as civic agents actively involved in reimagining and recreating alternative possibilities for themselves and their communities. Addressing these works, the notion of fixers is used to unpack the ways in which young men exhibit care and solidarity in urban Cameroon. Through productive masculinities, urban youth develop new modes of agency that allow them to become entrepreneurs of hope, despite the permanent difficulties of finding a place in a society that apparently does not have one for them.
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