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.