Essays

Mindful of the fact that the 2011 election was “the best run and the most violent” based on lives and belongings lost, I posit that both active and latent causes...

The elections not only present an opportunity for political change, but the outcomes would also impact Nigeria’s youth population, including the extent to which their voices are heard and their...

Thus, as the 2023 elections draw to a close, there is a need for youths to stay engaged and contribute actively to the consolidation of democracy.

Is Nigeria’s two-party system really institutionalized? Or can a third party defy the odds and create an electoral shock or upset?

If democracy continues to falter in more African countries, it will be hard for the US, and key Western powers, to completely avoid the potential collateral damages and broader ramifications.

The continent’s priority should be to transform the structure of Africa’s participation in global trade through value-adding export policies.

Youth today are more educated than their parents are and could be empowered to conduct climate change research and help to implement climate change policies.

Youth-led social movements in many African countries have since the much-heralded Arab Spring continued to play an important role in demanding democracy and holding governments accountable.

The program was set up with the primary mandate of mainstreaming youth into the peace and security agenda of the Union.

The essays in this volume address several subthemes within the framework of peace, trade, and youth, by referencing African perspectives on US-Africa relations.

I also note that the APN has been a mirror with which one can see, reflect, and project himself into the future as a top-level researcher and expert.

To get out of the "impasse of neither peace nor war" in Casamance, it is necessary, through a cultural approach, to establish a space of testimonies allowing various generations to...