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After more than a decade of emphasizing African children’s and youth’s agencies, possibilities and creativities in more or less challenging social, political and economic environments (see Bordonaro &#38; Carvalho, 2010; Christiansen, Utas, &#38; Vigh, 2006; Honwana &#38; de Boeck, 2005; Martin, Ungruhe, &#38; Häberlein, 2016; Spittler &#38; Bourdillon, 2012), other recent studies increasingly highlight the young people’s powerlessness, bleak presents and uncertain futures. Doing so, the image of an enduring social, political and economic exclusion is manifested in popular conceptualizations of “being stuck” (Sommers, 2012), “persistent marginalization” (Resnick &#38; Thurlow, 2015) and probably most prominently in Alcinda Honwana’s (2012) conceptualization of “waithood” (see Dhillon &#38; Yousef, 2009), all implicitly acknowledging the more than twenty year old observation of Africa’s “lost generation” (Cruise O’Brien, 1996). Seemingly affected by deficiencies of various kinds and hence often forced into all sorts of problematic or dangerous engagements in order to – socially or literally – survive, today’s young generation in African settings is widely portrayed to live lives “out of place” (see Invernizzi, Liebel, Milne, &#38; Budde, 2017) and outside social norms. It is this shift back to conceptualizations of children and youth as social problem that this special dossier aims to scrutinize and to challenge.Summary :DossierDossiê temáticoChristian Ungruhe, Ute Röschenthaler et Mamadou DiawaraIntroduction: Young people working for better lives in West and Central AfricaIsaiah Kunock AfuBoko Haram Insurgency, Youth Mobility and Better Life in the Far North Region of CameroonInsurreição do Boko Haram, mobilidade juvenil e vida melhor na região do extremo norte dos CamarõesChristian UngruheBeyond Agency’s Limits. “Street Children’s” Mobilities in Southern GhanaPara além dos limites da agência. Mobilidade das “crianças de rua” no sul do GanaSilke OldenburgDead End? Young Mototaxi Drivers Between Being Stuck, Bridging Potholes and Building a Future in Goma, Eastern CongoBeco sem saída? Jovens condutores de mototáxi entre ficarem parados, atravessarem buracos e construírem um futuro em Goma, leste do CongoYoussouf KarambéLe Parcours Professionnel des Jeunes au Mali vers l’Auto-entrepreneuriatO percurso profissional dos jovens no Mali para o auto-empreendedorismoFodié TandjigoraLe Non-retour des Étudiants Boursiers : Un cas inédit de l’immigration malienne en FranceO não retorno dos estudantes bolseiros: Um caso inédito da imigração maliana em FrançaMoris Samen« Rester c’est Vivre, Partir c’est Mourir ». Le regard des érudits bamiléké sur la migration des jeunes et ses causes aujourd’hui“Ficar é viver, partir é morrer”. O olhar dos eruditos bamileke sobre a migração dos jovens e as suas causas hojeSusanne U. SchultzUnfulfilled Expectations for Making a Better Life: Young Malian men coping with their post deportation adventuresExpectativas frustradas de alcançar uma vida melhor: Jovens malianos a lidar com as suas aventuras pós-deportaçãoArticlesArtigosNatacha BrunaReflexões sobre o Modelo de Desenvolvimento Rural e Cooperação no Corredor de NacalaReflections on the model of rural development and cooperation in the Nacala CorridorGerard HortaFrom Peripatetic Anthropology to the Ethnography of Roads and Motorisation in AfricaDa antropologia peripatética à etnografia das estradas e a motorização em ÁfricaBook reviews RecensõesKaian LamManuel João Ramos. Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves: An Ethiopian Travelogue (C. J. Tribe, Trans.). Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston. 2018. 214 pp. ISBN: 978-1-907774-19-5Carlos Alberto TelloAugustin Ramazani-Bishwende, Le Kivu Balkanisé. Miroir d’une Mondialisation Mafieuse. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2017. 58 pp. ISBN: 9782-2-343-11796-6Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 37 | 2019 : https://journals.openedition.org/cea/3530