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Who is in the ‘‘We’’? Interrogating the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and Youth Political Participation
International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Pub Date : 2018-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2018.1466631
Job S. Amupanda 1
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Abstract Most analyses of the African Union (AU) have focused on the politics of the state and the presidents. There are very few analyses that have focused on aspects such as youth development. The point of departure for this article therefore, is youth development. I argue that although the youth were always part of important historical developments in Africa, they remain on the periphery. In recent times, particularly since the transformation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) into the AU in the 2000s, the youth development agenda has begun to receive the attention at policy level. In 2015 the AU, through Agenda 2063 went a step further by including youth development into mainstream continental policy frameworks. While we welcome all these developments it has emerged that the continent remains hesitant in the area of youth development. Where the AU and its member states have adopted the discourse of youth inclusion—in cases where youth political participation is often limited, such efforts are not met with fitting institutional and practical policy arrangements. The article posits that the African elite is in for a rude awakening as we have witnessed—since 2011—given the discovery by the African youth of new methods of political participation in post-colonial Africa. The article advocates for the adoption of the African community outlook to youth state policy, argues for the youth to be linked to the project of economic freedom, and implores the African elite to embark on the decolonial project to resolve the bearing coloniality of being, power and knowledge.

中文翻译:

谁在“我们”中?审问非洲联盟 2063 年议程和青年政治参与

摘要 对非洲联盟 (AU) 的大多数分析都集中在国家和总统的政治上。很少有分析侧重于青年发展等方面。因此,本文的出发点是青年发展。我认为,尽管青年一直是非洲重要历史发展的一部分,但他们仍然处于边缘。近年来,特别是自 2000 年代非洲统一组织(OAU)转变为非盟以来,青年发展议程开始受到政策层面的关注。2015 年,非盟通过 2063 年议程更进一步,将青年发展纳入主流大陆政策框架。虽然我们欢迎所有这些发展,但非洲大陆在青年发展领域仍然犹豫不决。在非盟及其成员国采用青年包容性话语的情况下——在青年政治参与往往有限的情况下,这种努力没有得到适当的制度和实际政策安排。文章认为,正如我们自 2011 年以来所目睹的那样,鉴于非洲青年发现了后殖民非洲政治参与的新方法,非洲精英正在猛然觉醒。文章主张采纳非洲共同体的青年国家政策,主张青年与经济自由项目挂钩,并恳请非洲精英开展非殖民化项目,以解决存在、权力的承载殖民性。和知识。
更新日期:2018-01-02
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