- Volume 11, Number 4 (2023)
YOUTH ACTIVISM IN ACTION: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA'S END SARS PROTESTS
Amina Ibrahim Bello, Abubakar Sadiq Abdullahi
This paper examines the Nigerian youth movement, with a focus on the End Special Anti-Robbery Squad (EndSARS) protests and the challenges facing Nigerian youths. Nigerian youths have contributed greatly to the country's development through various facets such as democracy, governance, politics, economy, security, and community development. However, failure to invest, promote, and protect youths may lead to radicalization, violent acts, and extremism. The EndSARS protests were not just about the brutality and disbandment of SARS but also about reforming the entire Nigerian Police Force and other lukewarm attitudes of the government towards Nigerian youths. The paper identifies short-sighted policymaking as...
SURVIVORS SPEAK: NARRATIVES OF RESILIENCE FROM SOUTH SUDAN'S CONFLICT ZONE
Ngozi Adaeze Nwosu
This qualitative study explores the link between ethnic conflict and sexual violence in South Sudan's civil war that began in 2013. The paper's focus is on the conflict and the violence perpetuated alongside the conflict, with the aim of analyzing and explaining why ethnicity was the fundamental causal factor of the conflict of South Sudan. The study utilizes the instrumentalist theory of ethnic conflict to examine the role of ethnicity in the conflict. The Dinka and Nuer ethnicities are identified as the most dominant ethnicities in South Sudan, with the existing conflicts mainly emanating from these two groups. In addition,...
BRIDGING REALITIES: INTERSECTIONS IN THE FABRIC OF AFRICAN IDENTITY
Patrick O'Reilly Liam
This article explores the issue of tribal and ethnic identities in Africa and their impact on social tensions, political intolerance, and violence. Through a discourse analysis of the works of two African novelists, Eugène Nzamboung and Dominique M'Fouillou, the article demonstrates how these writers construct identities in their narratives as constructive "alterity" rather than negative sources of conflict. Using ontological and anthropological perspectives, the article examines the representation of key concepts, such as identities, existence, being, becoming, and the representation of historical and social reality. The article argues for a reconceptualization and reclamation of African identity, emphasizing the need to...