Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S. <br/><br/>
African youth in contemporary literature and popular culture  identity quest /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2014. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 255 p.) 
 - Routledge African studies ;  13 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> African youth : cultural identity in literature, media and imagined spaces /  Gender bending and identity construction in Jelloun's The sand child /  Childhood creative spaces and survival spaces in Sade Adeniran's Imagine this? /  Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory : a critique on the tradition of "testing" /  Sankofa's songbirds : African American children as culture bearers in jazz-infused children's literature /  African American boys' responses to illustrations and text involving black inmates and gangsters in multicultural children's literature /  The global outsiders and colonized : African child soldiers and inner-city African-American teen gangsters in adolescent literature /  Continuing the conversation : consider morality in African diaspora nonfiction picture books /  The exotic, mysterious and "darkest Africa" /  Breaking barriers : African knowledge systems as windows to understanding African childhood in a United States social studies classroom /  The rise of Sheng : a socio-linguistic revolution from below /  How African youth control their identities through social media /  Social media and North African Arab Spring youth identity /  Nollywood whispers as a beacon of hope for youths /  "Planete jeunes" : African youth cultures and globalization /  Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and Lindah Mhando --  Lindah Mhando and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw --  Suzanne Marie Ondrus --  Renee Latchman --  Ada McKenzie --  Mary Ellen Oslick --  Yoo Kyung Sung --  Shanetia Clark and Barbara A. Marinak --  Seemi Aziz --  Lewis Asimeng-Boahene --  Michael Wairungu --  Stephen Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw --  Wafa Hozien --  Agatha Ada Ukata --  Nalova Westbrook. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315885773 (ebook : PDF) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African American youth in literature.<br/>African literature--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>African literature--History and criticism.--21st century<br/>Children in literature.<br/>Youth in literature.<br/>Youth in mass media.<br/>Youth--Social conditions.--Africa