Understanding Adolescence in African Contexts

Feb 01 2022 7 ep. 41 mins 447

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This series of podcasts explore the question of adolescence in African contexts. They are part of the ongoing work of the 5-year, UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund Hub, Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents, hosted by the University of Oxford and the University of Cape Town. These podcasts are part of the innovation strand of the Hub's work, seeking to challenge and extend the ideas that underpin research on adolescence in Africa.

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S2E3: Thinking Futures

Feb 01 2022 60 mins

This episode’s discussion with three African writers and cultural practitioners asks how we imagine the future in situations where we may lack resources or feel cut off from opportunities. In contexts of poverty and deprivation, how do young people in Africa think about tomorrow? We also talk about the tools that work well to imagine the future. Participants: Aleya Kassam (LAM

S2E2: Employment as Accelerator

Feb 01 2022 55 mins

This episode’s conversation explores the practical ways in which jobs can be created as an intervention for young people on the African continent. The participants draw on their experience to talk about what worked particularly well in recent interventions relating to employment. Participants: Lukas Hensel (Guanghua University), Kebba-Omar Jagne (Gambia), Iyeyinka Kusi-Mensah (C

S2E1: Narrative, intervention, motivation

Feb 01 2022 55 mins

This episode is a conversation about how storytelling works in empowering ways in in situations of intervention in African contexts. We discuss how our work on motivation and storytelling helps to ground interventions in particular contexts and to make them relatable and own-able for people. In this episode of ‘Understanding Adolescence in African Contexts’, we look at the kin

S1E4: Adolescence, narrative and storytelling

Feb 06 2020 26 mins

This episode hosts a discussion reflecting on the meeting points between narrative and adolescence. The episode seeks to flesh out how stories are used by adolescents, and told about adolescents, and what differences this makes to their lives. The participants debate the ethics of storytelling, the relationship between stories and empathy, and what makes people able to tell stories

S1E3: Performance and Adolescence

Feb 06 2020 30 mins

This episode explores the relationship between performance and selfhood in adolescent lives. Roaming from methodologies of writing and photography through questions of gender, social media and performativity, the participants share their experiences about the importance of story-telling and expression to adolescents in Africa and beyond. They reflect together on how image-making, p

S1E2: Adolescence and Care

Feb 06 2020 28 mins

This epsiode addresses the role of care in adolescence in African contexts. The conversation explores how context changes the very spaces and times of what adolescence is, when it starts and ends, how it is experienced and how it is categorized. Reflecting on the role of friendship, family formations and environmental conditions, the participants think through how interventions in

S1E1: Violence and Adolescence

Feb 06 2020 35 mins

This episode explores the impact of violence in the lives of young people, both in African contexts and beyond. The particular kinds of violence that adolescents are subject to have long-lasting and widely varying effects across time and space. Sharing personal stories, the participants reflect on the multiple forms and scales of violence that adolescents experience as they move fr