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Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order

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Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order: Existentialities in Migrations, Identity and the Digital Space

EDITED BY

Ọláyínká Àkànle

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

University of Johannesburg, South Africa

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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To all organizations, groups, institutions and individuals committed to achievement of youth inclusion, empowerment and sustainable development across the world.

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About the Contributors

Damilola Adegoke is a Research Associate and a Peter da Costa Post-Doctoral Fellow (Future Peace and the State in Africa research cluster) with the African Leadership Centre (ALC), King’s College London. His PhD thesis explored the roles and place of big data in security leadership decision-making in crisis situations. He has a BA in Philosophy and an MSc in Sociology of Development from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He also holds an MSc in Security, Leadership and Society from King’s College London. He is the Head and Chief Data Analyst of the Data Lab (ALC). He is a steering committee member and board member of the Digital Sociology Group of the International Sociology Association. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Buea, Republic of Cameroon. His research interests include artificial intelligence and big data security decision-making, social network analysis and computational sociology.

Ọláyínká Àkànle is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the South African Research Chair Initiative in Social Policy, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa. He has won other scholarly awards such as being a World Social Science Fellow of the International Social Science Council, Paris, France; Laureate of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal; and received the Postgraduate School Prize for scholarly publication from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a recipient of the Certificate of Achievement from Folke Bernadotte Academy, Swedish Agency for Peace, Security and Development, Sweden. He is a thorough-bred and an internationally affirmed academic, scholar and expert on international development, migration and diaspora studies, social policy, sociological practice and sustainable development. He is a member of funded research groups including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Funded Research in DRC, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, as well as Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded Research on data and displacement in Nigeria and Sudan. He is a widely published scholar, the author of Kinship Networks and International Migration in Nigeria (Cambridge Scholar Publishers, UK, 2015), and has co-edited, among other books, The Development of Africa: Issues, Diagnosis and Prognosis (Springer Publishing, Germany, 2018) and Corruption and Development in Nigeria (Routledge, UK, 2022).

Kafayat Aminu is a Medical Sociologist who hails from the ancient city of Ibadan. She commenced her higher education at the University of Ilorin where she obtained her Diploma in Social Administration. She later proceeded to the University of Ibadan where she obtained her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Sociology. She has special interests in health inequalities, infectious diseases, research methods and ethics, disability studies, virtual communication and others. For her doctoral thesis, she explored the experience of hospital care and social construction of disability in a spinal-cord-injury population. She is a multidisciplinary researcher who has co-authored book chapters and several scientific papers in reputable journals. Her mentors include neurosurgeons and medical sociologists and anthropologists who have influenced her research interests to a great extent. She hopes to reconnoitre other remarkable subjects as she journeys through her career.

Jimoh Amzat is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria, and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a recipient of Erasmus Mundus scholarships (both as a graduate student and a visiting scholar) and an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship (Germany). He has previously served as a Guest Lecturer to the University of Bielefeld, Germany and EHESP School of Public Health, Rennes, France. He is a scholar of extraordinary insight, with a versatile academic charm and zeal, framed around the tetrad of medical sociology, bioethics, global health and social problems. He has published numerous books and papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Shreya Bhardwaj is a Sociology Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in the Czech Republic. After working with Tibetan musicians in Dharamshala, India, for her Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Delhi, she has been working with Muslim migrant youth in the Czech Republic under the supervision of Dr Zdenek Uherek (ISS FSV Director, UK), taking a feminist and decolonial approach. She is also involved in a two-year multidisciplinary EU-funded START project aiming to understand how patient advocacy can influence patients’ access to justice.

Christophe Dongmo is the Programme Quality and Development Director at Sonna Etienne Foundation, and a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at Leiden University African Studies Centre. He previously served as Senior Regional Executive Officer (Central Africa) of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Country Representative (Cameroon) of Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation. He holds advanced degrees in international human rights law, American diplomatic history and political science from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), Vanderbilt University (USA) and Johns Hopkins University (USA).

Demilade Ifeoluwa Kayode has degrees in Sociology from Bowen University, Nigeria, and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Her research interests include but are not limited to urbanization and migration, social policy, sustainable development, environmental sustainability, qualitative and quantitative methods and entrepreneurship. She has passion for teaching and academic writing.

Amani El Naggare is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Sociology at Münster University in Germany. Her PhD thesis examines emotions and political trajectories of youth protesters during the political transition in Egypt from 2011 to the present. Further research interests are youth migrations and activism in exile after the Arab Spring. She has conducted intensive field research in Morocco and Egypt, focusing on youth political participation prior to, and in the aftermath of, the uprisings of 2011. She has participated in several academic conferences during the last decade.

Tatenda Goodman Nhapi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work (University of Zimbabwe) and is a graduate of the Erasmus Mundus MA Advanced Development in Social Work joint programme among the University of Lincoln (England), Aalborg University (Denmark), Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Paris Ouest Nantere La Defense (France) and Warsaw University (Poland). He started his career in Zimbabwe (2008–2013) working in relief and development and social research, focusing on child welfare and gender issues. While employed in Zimbabwe’s Department of Social Services, his work focused on policies and protocols implementation pertaining to care and protection of children, older persons, persons with disabilities, disadvantaged persons and households in distress. He is a Research Associate with the University of Johannesburg, and the South African Department of Social Work and Community Development. His research agenda revolves around social policy and implementation of developmental programmes in their attempt to address issues such as poverty, inequality, HIV/AIDS and poverty traps of vulnerable groups such as women, children, older people and youths. He has high academic standing with a growing reputation in research, evidenced by an emerging portfolio of internationally recognised publications.

Terngu Sylvanus Nomishan holds Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Archaeology and is presently preparing to commence his PhD programme. He also completed a certificate course in Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He lectures in the Department of Archaeology and Museum Studies, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria. His research areas include Cultural Anthropology, Ethnoarchaeology, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies and Cultural Resource Management CRM. He has published quality articles in both local and international renowned journals. He is an Inaugural Council Member of the Pan African Scientific Research Council.

Ewajesu Opeyemi Okewumi is a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a fellow of the Lagos Studies Association. She has attended conferences both locally and internationally and has published articles and book chapters on childhood studies, development studies and sociological theories.

Damola Toyosi Olaniyi holds a Master of Science degree in Sociology and Bachelor of Science degree in Criminology And Security Studies from the University of Lagos and the National Open University of Nigeria, respectively. His areas of interest include sociology of development, crime and delinquency and social issues. Currently, he works as an independent social researcher and has to his credits academic research publications on suicide terrorism, substance abuse and criminality, social supports and widowhood in Nigeria, global issues and African perspectives in sociological theories among others. He has taken part in research studies sponsored by both local and international donors on HIV prevention interventions for female sex worker in Nigeria, Quite Corruption in Lagos State Educational System, among others. Currently, he is an MPhil/PhD student of the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan.

Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale (PhD) is a professor of Sociology at the University of Ibadan. He has won the University of Ibadan Postgraduate School Award for scholarly publication, 2007; the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique Research Fellowship, 2009; the American Council of Learned Societies – African Humanities Programme Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2010; and the African Studies Association (USA) Presidential Award for 2014. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for African Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, in November 2014. His works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes locally and internationally. He served on the board of editors of International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (2009), and he is the author of The Tokunbo Phenomenon and the Second-Hand Economy in Nigeria (2013). He is the editor of Ibadan Journal of Sociology, and he is also an international partner and participant in the International Network on Women on the Move COST Action (CA19112) 2020-2022.

Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale holds a PhD in Anthropology. Her doctoral research was on space, sexuality and power at Bodija Market, Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies – African Humanities Programme (ACLS-AHP) Doctoral Fellowship 2012, the Cadbury Fellowship (Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Birmingham University) 2014 and ACLS-AHP Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2016. Her interests lie in medical anthropology, public health anthropology, cultural studies, sexuality issues and maternal, child and adolescent studies. She is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a co-investigator on the Global Grand Challenges (Round 23) project on Immunization Strategies for Working Mothers 2019–2021.