African Feminist Girlhood Studies and Development

This project draws on African feminisms to propose major questions about the agency of girls. The central research questions of the book are: what is the history of girlhood on the ground invarious regions ofAfrica? In African contexts, how are humanistic approaches helpingsocial scientists and development practitionersto unravel some of the seemingly unsolvable challenges? And, finally, in what ways might development projects defined and shaped by adolescent African girls lead us to better understandings ofchallenges they faceandbeneficial as well as realisticsolutions and critical responses to poverty, development, and inequality? Theauthorsexpandthe existing conversation by drawing upon epistemological foundations emerging from groundbreaking work in the history of gender in Africa. The data andanalysespresented in this workcontributeto the fields of African politics, girlhood studies, African feminisms, African histories, and development studies.