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Lorenzo I. Bordonaro is a post-doctoral associate researcher at the Social Anthropology Research Centre - Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (CEAS) in Lisbon. He conducted research in the Archipelago of the Bijagós (Guinea Bissau) since 1993, initially investigating music and public performances as key elements in the social construction of masculinity. Since 2001 he has focused on the will to be modern of a group of young men on the island of Bubaque, showing the local appropriation of the categories of development and progress and their tactical use in the intergenerational dynamics. Presently he is working on the issues of youth in Cape Verde, focusing on street children and younger prisoners in local penitentiaries, on youth policies and criminality. He has recently organized an international conference in Lisbon on Youth and Modernity in Africa.