young Africans struggling with unemployment, the difficulty of finding sustainable livelihoods, and the absence of civil liberties
Youth, Waithood, and Protest Movements in Africa - By Alcinda Honwana - African Arguments - 0 views
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Political instability, bad governance, and failed neo-liberal social and economic policies have exacerbated longstanding societal problems and diminished young people’s ability to support themselves and their families
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Many are unable to attain the prerequisites of full adulthood and take their place as fully-fledged members of society. The recent wave of youth protests can best be understood in the context of this generation’s struggles for economic, social, and political emancipation
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Bringing the Economy Back Into Tunisian Politics - Carnegie Endowment for International... - 0 views
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Observers have often summarized the situation in Tunisia, and the Arab world in general, as a conflict between Islamists and secularists. While the framework of an Islamist–secularist divide is not completely inaccurate, it frequently ignores more nuanced analysis and perpetuates the orientalist premise that Middle East politics should be explained by historical religious norms. In Tunisia, political Islam was marginal until the fall of dictatorship in January 2011.
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The main demands of the sporadic protest movements before 2011 were not ideological, but called for more political liberties or an improved socioeconomic situation, as in the 2008 Gafsa uprising
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a growing sense among disenchanted voters, youth in particular, that their standards of living would not improve no matter which party they voted for.
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'Everything is stolen from us': Tunisians fight to preserve cultural heritage | PLACE - 0 views
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The looting of archaeological sites is a longstanding problem in Tunisia
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Objects of significant historical and cultural value often end up on the European market and in the homes of Tunisia's rich and powerful
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instability and chaos of conflict often provides a window for archaeological looting
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