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Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 make up two-thirds<\/a> of Africa’s population. The number is expected to reach 75% by 2030<\/a>. They live in an environment of rapid urbanisation<\/a>, high unemployment rates and poor state services. These are some of the factors that incline young people towards political involvement – as seen in Kenya and Uganda most recently.<\/p>\n As the Kenya example illustrates, youth can use protests, advocacy, or voting to express their citizenship. At its most basic, citizenship…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 make up two-thirds of Africa’s population. The number is expected to reach 75% by 2030. They live in an environment of rapid urbanisation, high unemployment rates and poor state services. These are some of the factors that incline young people towards political involvement – as seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00571243:d92a69d72640513f12d64ad2ccd0da8e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4380,8455,16140,4508,4509,6677,13155,257,6712,254,746,4707,8010,7720],"class_list":["post-177948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-citizen","tag-explores","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-good","tag-means","tag-news","tag-research","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanzania","tag-uganda","tag-urban","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00571243:d92a69d72640513f12d64ad2ccd0da8e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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