Covid-19 and the plight of youth living with HIV in South Africa
Long before South Africa was hit by Covid-19, youth living with HIV identified stigma as one of the major challenges they face …
Tasting Independence
Maggi instant noodles are a treasured favorite among India’s young people. Their banning in 2015 conjured youthful memories of rebellion and revealed …
Pregnancy and baby apps, smart home devices: Anthropologist shows how surveillance capitalism targets children
When we are online we are constantly being watched and tracked. A huge industry has evolved to build profiles about us so …
Being Psychotically Adept— Placing Change, the Poetic Self, and Community Arts Together by Luke Kernan
For some time now, I have been volunteering at a local mental health clinic known as Foundry. One of the activities I …
Michelle Williams takes the page 99 test
One half of page 99 of my doctoral thesis is a photo, taken at eye level of a group of Tongan students …
A Year of Trans Childhood by Paula Martin
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century Tey Meadow University of California Press, 2018. 320 pages. The Trans Generation: How Trans …
“From Zero to Hero”: The life of Sierra Leonean football players in Scandinavia, by Zora Šašková
Community league game in Lunsar, Port Loko District “Is Foday back home?” I asked Erik, a former Danish Superliga coach and owner …
Are Sierra Leone’s gangs a new phenomenon? by Kars de Bruijne
MOB – Members of Blood together with 103 a constituency number is an indication of the politics and gangs nexus – photo …
Development for somebody else, by Alexander Öbom
Motorcycle-taxi driving: one of few new jobs in Kisoro district. Drivers often rent their vehicle from someone else, who can afford to …
Sierra Leone’s laws to protect women have unintended consequences, by Luisa Schneider
Age-of-consent law is complex. If it is set too high, there’s a risk that it will undercut young people’s agency. If it …
UCL Young Curators with Harris Invictus Academy
Syeda Sana Gilani, Tyanne Hudson, Soliman Hussaini, Candour Ndaguba, Best Oscar, Kaiya Pink, Year 10 Students at Harris Invictus Academy, Croydon, London …
#Review: Mobile Secrets
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations (such as …
#Review: Mobile Secrets
Julie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic of youth …
Generation Terrorists: The Politics of Youth and the Gangs of Freetown, by Kieran Mitton
Youth at Risk – Youth as Risk On the evening of the 15th February, six leading presidential candidates for the Sierra Leone …
East Side Orchestras: Music and Social Change
I am currently working on a research project that looks at the social impacts of Arohanui Strings, Porirua Soundscapes, and Virtuoso Strings. These groups provide …
A Year of Two Elections
Victor flew into the tackle, blocking the opponent’s shot at goal. Shouts of praise went up from the fans and substitutes standing …
The myth of the trickle-down effect: What Guinea’s recent upheavals intimate about the country, by Joschka Philipps
The dry season’s dust has again settled on Conakry’s streets, aside from a few marks of ashes and rubble on the sides …
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 21: Maurice Magaña on Seeing Race and Citizenship in the U.S. through Ava Duvernay’s 13th
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical …
The “Born-Free” Generation
visual essay Figure 1. Masixole Mlandu, a University of Cape Town (UCT) student protest leader, during a national shutdown protest. Cape Town. …
Flavour was not supposed to die…, by Andrew Jefferson
It’s raining in Freetown and the traffic is, as usual, slow on the road through Congo Town towards Kroo Town Road. The …
The reception and consumption of telenovelas in Senegal
This is a fourth set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., …
Yemen’s broken youth
#SupportYemen March 2011 By Marina de Regt “Aunt, if you know any way to migrate to Europe plz just tell me, …
Children on the Border: Could Migration be the Problem, Not the Solution?
Youth gang recruits in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America are at risk at home, during migration, and even once they reach …