The time to come--as well as the exploration thereof--remains elusive
for social actors and social scientists alike. The contributors to this
volume accept the challenge to depict young men and women's
future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very
consciously, they study young graduates who have obtained a university
degree and provide a vivid picture of their strategies to socially grow
older by doing adulthood in contexts of great uncertainty. The examples
include Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania, visually
enriched through pictures taken by young Malian photographers.