West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways
This open access edited collection explores obstacles that impede, and potential pathways toward improving, the material and psychological well-being of youth in and from West Africa. Contributors range from researchers to practitioners, offering a transatlantic, transcontinental set of perspectives...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Series: | Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Mora Mclean
- 1. Education for All: The Case of Out of School Migrants in Ghana; Daniel Kyereko
- 2. Irregular Migration as Survival Strategy: Narratives from Vulnerable Youth in Urban Nigeria; Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo
- 3. Untold Stories: Newark's Burgeoning West African Population and the In-School Experiences of African Immigrant Youth; Michael Simmons and Mahako Etta
- 4. Police-Youth Relations: On the Ground Perspectives from Nigeria´s Federal Capital; Samuel Oluwole Ojewale
- 5. "To become somebody in the future": Exploring the Content of Youth Aspirations in Urban Nigeria; Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima
- 6. Someone has to tell these children: You can be as good as anybody!; Cecilia Fiaka
- 7. The Limits of Individual Level Factors for Girls Achievement in Ghana and South Africa; Sally A. Nuamah
- 8. Youth Employment and Labour Market Vulnerability in Ghana: Aggregate Trends and Determinants; Adedeji Adeniran, Adekunle Yusuf, and Joseph Ishaku
- 9. The Role of"eTrash2Cash" in Curbing the Menace of "Almajiri" Vulnerability in Nigeria through Waste Management Social Micro-entrepreneurship; Alh. Muhammad Salisu Abdullahi
- 10. Burden, Drivers, and Impacts of Poor Mental Health in Young People of West and Central Africa: Implications for Research and Programming; Kenneth Juma, Frederick Wekesah, Boniface Ushie, Caroline W. Kabiru, and Chimaraoke Izugbara.