Part 1. Introduction: youth views: 1. Youth in waithood -- 2. Doing research in Rwanda -- Part 2. Fear of failure: rural youth lives: 3. Living in a vertical world: rural youth and the government -- 4. Low horizons -- 5. Striving for adulthood -- Part 3. Quest for cash: urban youth lives: 6. Desperation on the new frontier: urban youth and the government -- 7. An inconstant existence -- 8. Prostitution, aids and fatalism -- Part 4. Visions and realities: Rwanda and beyond: 9. Stuck youth.