ABSTRACT

Both Parka and Apprentice’s programs taught business skills and an entrepreneurial mindset, and youths learned how to use these skills to sell, to make a profit, and to think of themselves as the economic goods they produced. In the frictions of enacting entrepreneurship, neo/liberal technologies of power and of self are dominant, but they are not ubiquitous. Alternative discourses and practices influenced how the youths were being made and making themselves as citizens in Tanzania. For the Tanzanian youths, wellbeing meant addressing the social and economic inequalities they faced in being educated and working in the labor market. Their livelihoods were also embedded in and contingent on social relations that would support their educational and work aspirations, and those of others with whom they lived. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.