Young people's engagement with the geopolitics of anti-apartheid solidarity in 1980s' London

In the late 1980s, children, teenagers and young adults were central to sustaining the anti-apartheid Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. The Picket was organised by the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group (City Group, for short), with its central demand being the unconditional release of Nelson Mandela. It started on 19 April 1986 and continued outside South Africa House 24 hours a day, until Mandela was released from prison in February 1990 (Brown and Yaffe, 2013; 2014). This chapter considers youth involvement in British anti-apartheid activism as a means of exploring how children and young people engage in geopolitics. We argue that youthful concerns about global geopolitics are always entangled with the everyday politics of growing up