Searching for the Everyday in African Childhoods

Edited by Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Peace Mamle Tetteh and Georgina Yaa Oduro, posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, in 2022

Searching for the everyday in African childhoods: introduction
Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Peace Mamle Tetteh and Georgina Yaa Oduro
Journal of the British Academy
, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 1-11, posted 1 June 2022

Caring and belonging in everyday African childhoods

Finding ‘belonging’ in the caring relationships of young people with migration experiences in South Africa
Thea Shahrokh
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 15-36, posted 1 June 2022

‘When I play football with my friends … there is no time that I feel sad’: an exploration of adolescents’ friendship networks in Ethiopia
Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Kassahun Tilahun and Workneh Yadete
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 37-56 posted 1 June 2022

Children’s recreation as an everyday activity

Time use and time use satisfaction: an examination of children’s out of school activities in Namibia
Shelene Gentz, Laura J. Chouinard and Mónica Ruiz-Casares
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 59-82, posted 1 June 2022

Childhood at latitude zero: revealing Sao Tome and Principe children’s play culture
Marlene Barra
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 83-109, posted 1 June 2022

Play, create, transform: a pluriverse of children and childhoods from southern Mozambique
Marina Di Napoli Pastore
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 111-132, posted 1 June 2022

Foregrounding indigenous and religious beliefs in socialisation practices

Harambee approach: towards decolonising East African education through capturing social-cultural ethos
Evelyn Wandia Corrado
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 135-152, posted 1 June 2022

Children’s everyday work in rural Muslim Yorùbá communities in North Central Nigeria
Bukola Oyinloye
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 153-174, posted 1 June 2022

Ordinary childhoods and everyday Islamic practices of protection and care in Zanzibar
Franziska Fay
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 175-197, posted 1 June 2022

Seen, heard and protected in their best interest: childhood construction within the worldview of the Fantse of Ghana
Alex J. Wilson
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 199-217, posted 1 June 2022

Children as peacemakers in transforming everyday conflicts in Ghana
Ruby Quantson Davis
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 219-238, posted 1 June 2022

It takes a village to raise a child: everyday experiences of living with extended family in Namibia
Emmerentia Leonard, Janetta Ananias and Victoria Sharley
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 239-261, posted 1 June 2022

Literary depictions of everyday African childhoods

Memory, innocence and nostalgia: other versions of African childhood in two African texts
Theresah Patrine Ennin
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 265-281, posted 1 June 2022

Everyday childhoods in contemporary African fiction
Veronica Barnsley
Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, supplementary issue 2, pp. 283-296, posted 1 June 2022

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