We acknowledge with gratitude the funding received from the Academy of Finland DEVELOP-programme (2018–2022) for the research project Theory and practice of learning to be a citizen: Experiences from Tanzania and Uganda (decision numbers 316098 and 316100) and from the Eudaimonia Institute of the University of Oulu for the research project Citizenship in Change: Constructing a Novel Theo…
The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and practi…