Everyday agency and centred marginality: being “youth” in the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria

This paper uses an ethnography of youth gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria to explore the distinctions between being young and being youth and to argue that, in order to understand the complexities of a category whose politics have profoundly influenced the history of contemporary s...

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Main Author: Akin Iwilade
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2020-01-01
Series:Ateliers d'Anthropologie
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/12277