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978-3-030-21092-2

West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-21092-2

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This book 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 on the mounting evidence that, whether they reside in poor “underdeveloped” or wealthier (OECD) countries, young people who live in poverty and are African-born or of African descent are disproportionately burdened by the global phenomenon of increasing income inequality.


Subject: Literature / Cultural and Media Studies / African Culture / African Politics / Cultural Policy and Politics / Children, Youth and Family Policy / African Economics / Public Policy / youth learning / vulnerable youth / opportunity pathways / postsecondary pathways / African immigrant youth / micro-entrepreneurship / youth migration / youth wellbeing / urban Nigeria / African development / Ghana / youth mental health / labor market vulnerability