February 2015

Education criminality, graduates employability and the Maicibi’s formula: Friends or foes?

A goat, a hyena and grass are dangerous bedfellows and thus cannot be friends. This analogy is similar to when one asks whether criminality in the education sector can enable or disable graduates to earn the necessary skills needed by employers; and further if Maicibi’s formula can be a moderating variable in this relationship. Studies in Europe (most likely with similar results in Africa) have indicated that...

Author(s): Maicibi Nok Alhas

February 2015

The relativity of heterosexual norms and gender power on young people’s sexuality in Africa

Within sociological discourse, young people’s sexual practices have become an area of particular interest as sociologists attempt to contextualise sexuality as multifaceted social experiences rather than as psychological or psychoanalytic processes. This study introduces a conceptual framework for investigating young people’s sexuality and sexual practices in African context. It was achieved through a...

Author(s): Ekundayo B. Babatunde and Modupe Ake