In 2008, the Nigerian government invited the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to undertake an environmental impact assessment of oil…
At the heart of the violent conflict in the Niger Delta region is the struggle over a non-renewable resource—crude oil—Nigeria’s…
While some recent studies have focused on the gender dimension of the struggle for environmental justice in the Niger Delta,…
Since 2009 when the Nigerian government declared a Presidential Amnesty for militants in the restive oil-producing Niger Delta, the fragile…
Africa is currently experiencing unprecedented population growth, characterized in part by a booming youth demographic. “Youth”—defined by the African Union’s…
Today, more than 600 million young people globally live in fragile and conflict-affected areas, a large proportion of them in…
Since 2000, the issue of violent extremism has risen to the highest levels of national, regional, and global concern. While…
As the group with least control over the means of production, and who, on account of their age have the…
For the last six decades, political elites have disadvantaged, marginalized, and infantilized young people in the Mano River Basin, a…
The dangers associated with the youth unemployment crisis in Africa have often been linked to political violence and civil unrest,…
