West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Mora L. McLean. 
 - 1st ed. 2020. 
 - Cham :  Springer International Publishing :  Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,  2020. 
 - XIX, 271 p. 7 illus. in color.  online resource. 
 - Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora .
 - Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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 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. Mora McLean is Co-Adjutant in the Office of the Chancellor and Office of Globally Engaged Experiential Learning at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783030210922 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-030-21092-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology—Africa.<br/>Africa—Politics and government.<br/>Cultural policy.<br/>Social policy.<br/>Africa—Economic conditions.<br/>Public policy.<br/>African Culture.<br/>African Politics.<br/>Cultural Policy and Politics.<br/>Children, Youth and Family Policy.<br/>African Economics.<br/>Public Policy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN643-661 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.096