This work examines the lives of urban young men recruited into one of the militias fighting in the civil war in the West African country of Guinea- Bissau in the late 1990s. Putting his ethnographic f
Through the concept of "social navigation," this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa. Social navigation offers a perspective on praxis in situations of conflict and turm
What makes young men willing to risk their lives by enrolling in violent organizations? How do these organizations persuade young men to do so? In the age of radicalization, these questions are centra
