Untold Youth, Unchronicled Odyssey: A Forest Schoolgirl's Journey across Post-Revolutionary Guinea, 1984-2013

Untold Youth, Unchronicled Odyssey: A Forest Schoolgirl's Journey across Post-Revolutionary Guinea, 1984-2013

Author: 
Straker, Jay
Publisher: 
African Studies Centre, Boston University
Date published: 
2016
Record type: 
Journal article
Region: 
Africa
Western Africa
Journal Title: 
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Source: 
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2016, pp. 381-404
Subject: 
YOUTH
ETHNOHISTORY
Abstract: 

The article discusses the life history of schoolgirl Thérèse Béavogui across post-revolutionary Guinea in 1984-2013. It looks at the factors that have circumscribed ethnohistorical research and writing on young people coming of age in the country. It also contends that an expansion and intensification of youth studies constitutes the necessary cornerstone and catalyst for a new chapter of Guinean postcolonial historiography.

Language: 
English
Country focus: 
Guinea
Catagory URL: 
http://www.bu.edu/
Subject profile : 
Geography / History

CITATION: Straker, Jay. Untold Youth, Unchronicled Odyssey: A Forest Schoolgirl's Journey across Post-Revolutionary Guinea, 1984-2013 . : African Studies Centre, Boston University , 2016. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2016, pp. 381-404 - Available at: https://library.au.int/untold-youth-unchronicled-odyssey-forest-schoolgirls-journey-across-post-revolutionary-guinea-1984