Rwanda: Fearing Africa’s young men

This paper sets the case of Rwanda’s male youth within the larger context of Africa’s urbanisation and burgeoning youth population. It investigates the pervasive images of male urban youth as a menace to Africa’s development and its primary source of instability. It then turns to the Rwandan case, examining the desperate conditions its young men (and women) faced before the civil war (1990-94) and 1994 genocide, as well as their experience of it.