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West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

By Mora L. McLean

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
978-3-030-21091-5, 978-3-030-21092-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3159164 bytes)
Series
Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Edition
1st ed. 2020
Pages
XIX, 271\280
Time added
2020-02-08 04:41:12
Cultural and Media Studies; African Culture; AfricYouth and Family Policy; African Economics; Public

Description

This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the book conveys the resilience of African youth transitioning toward adulthood in a world of structural inequality. It thus crosses the academic divide between Youth Studies and African Studies, while challenging conventional framings of Black youth as deficient and deviant—positing instead their individual and collective creativity and assets. The contributors employ different methodological approaches, including field research and autoethnography, from varying multidisciplinary and practitioner perspectives. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction (Mora L. McLean)....Pages 1-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Education for All: The Case of Out-of-School Migrants in Ghana (Daniel Owusu Kyereko)....Pages 27-52 Irregular Migration as Survival Strategy: Narratives from Youth in Urban Nigeria (Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo)....Pages 53-77 Untold Stories: Newark’s Burgeoning West African Population and the In-School Experiences of African Immigrant Youth (Michael Simmons, Mahako Etta)....Pages 79-100 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 “To Become Somebody in the Future”: Exploring the Content of University Students’ Goals in Nigeria (Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima)....Pages 103-129 Making Lives, Making Communities: Deaf Youth in Benin (Carsten Mildner)....Pages 131-156 Someone Has to Tell These Children: “You Can Be As Good As Anybody!” (Cecilia Fiaka)....Pages 157-169 The Limits of Individual-Level Factors for Ghanaian and South African Girls’ Learning (Sally A. Nuamah)....Pages 171-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Youth Employment and Labor Market Vulnerability in Ghana: Aggregate Trends and Determinants (Adedeji Adeniran, Joseph Ishaku, Adekunle Yusuf)....Pages 187-211 The Role of “eTrash2Cash” in Curtailing “Almajiri” Vulnerability in Nigeria Through Waste Management Social Micro-entrepreneurship (Alh. Muhammad Salisu Abdullahi)....Pages 213-231 Burden, Drivers, and Impacts of Poor Mental Health in Young People of West and Central Africa: Implications for Research and Programming (Kenneth Juma, Frederick Murunga Wekesah, Caroline W. Kabiru, Chimaraoke O. Izugbara)....Pages 233-265 Back Matter ....Pages 267-271

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