Haraka, Haraka-- Look Before You Leap

Youth at the Crossroad of Custom and Modernity

A compilation of nine studies from the Reproductive Health Study Group at the University of Dar es Salaam. They highlight the erosion of customary institutions that regulate procreation and express the meaning of gender and marriage. They show the failure of modern education to prepare the young for gendered adulthood. A central tenet of the work is that without an understanding of the dynamics of local customs and attitudes as well as their significance to the people who hold them, change initiated from without becomes ineffective and unsustainable.

These are the main themes addressed by the authors of Haraka, Hakaka... Look before you leap.