‘Global Youth work is based on informal education with the youth, encouraging a critical understanding of the links between the personal, local and global. We aim to seek their active participation in actions, which build alliances to bring about change towards greater equity and justice.’

Learning For Change

West Africa is a region of deep contrasts when it comes to issues of Democracy, human rights and good governance. A cursory look at the region may make one believe that there is nothing but war and the associated effects of refugee crisis, internal displacement, the wanton destruction of lives and national infrastructure, and the destruction of the fragile environment and economies. The cases of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast and incessant religious and inter-communal conflicts in Nigeria, as well as the Cassamance conflict in Senegal verify this assumption. Another look at the other countries of the region shows remarkable cause for hope. The relative peaceful democratic transition in Ghana after a prolonged military rule; the peaceful transfer of power in Senegal that put an end to almost forty years of the monopoly of power by the Socialist Party since independence; the elections in Nigeria; and the democratic change of power in Mali provide hope to the people of the region.

See also:
Youth and Conflict in West Africa

Youth and Conflict in Northern Nigeria