We're focusing on gender-based violence tonight. Violence against women is often perpetrated by men who are close to them. But a new book warns against stereotyping men, especially young black men who live in townships. Dr. Malose Langa set out to understand the factors that facilitated or hindered the search for alternative forms of masculinity. In Becoming Men: Black Masculinities in a South African township, he tracked a group of young black boys moving to adulthood over a period of 11 years, mainly from Alexandra township in Johannesburg. Dr. Langa joins us now.
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