This open-access edited collection focusing on Ghana and Nigeria offers a transatlantic
transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth-ranging
from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark New Jersey to students in Almajiri
Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration vulnerability and
agency and aspirations the book conveys the resilience of African youth transitioning toward
adulthood in a world of structural inequality. It thus crosses the academic divide between
Youth Studies and African Studies while challenging conventional framings of Black youth as
deficient and deviant-positing instead their individual and collective creativity and assets.
The contributors employ different methodological approaches including field research and
autoethnography from varying multidisciplinary and practitioner perspectives.
