TY - BOOK AU - Yenika-Agbaw,Vivian S. AU - Mhando,Lindah TI - African youth in contemporary literature and popular culture: identity quest T2 - Routledge African studies SN - 9781138092402 AV - PL8010 .Y46 2013 KW - African literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - Youth KW - Africa KW - Social conditions KW - Youth in literature KW - Youth in mass media KW - Children in literature KW - African American youth in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; African youth : cultural identity in literature, media and imagined spaces; Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando --; Gender bending and identity construction in Jelloun's The sand child; Lindah Mhando and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw --; Childhood creative spaces and survival spaces in Sade Adeniran's Imagine this; Suzanne Marie Ondrus --; Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory : a critique on the tradition of "testing"; Renee Latchman --; Sankofa's songbirds : African American children as culture bearers in jazz-infused children's literature; Ada McKenzie --; African American boys' responses to illustrations and text involving black inmates and gangsters in multicultural children's literature; Mary Ellen Oslick --; The global outsiders and colonized : African child soldiers and inner-city African American teen gangsters in adolescent literature; Yoo Kyung Sung --; Continuing the conversation : consider morality in African diaspora nonfiction picture books; Shanetia Clark and Barbara A. Marinak --; The exotic, mysterious and "darkest Africa"; Seemi Aziz --; Breaking barriers : African knowledge systems as windows to understanding African childhood in a United States social studies classroom; Lewis Asimeng-Boahene --; The rise of Sheng : a socio-linguistic revolution from below; Michael Wairungu --; How African youth control their identities through social media; Stephen Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw --; Social media and North African Arab Spring youth identity; Wafa Hozien --; Nollywood whispers as a beacon of hope for youths; Agatha Ada Ukata --; "Planète jeunes" : African youth cultures and globalization; Nalova Westbrook ER -