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Revolutionary Vanguard No More?
The Student Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice in Nigeria
From: The University and Social Justice
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Contributors
Rhoda Nanre Nafziger
Rhoda Nanre Nafziger is a doctoral candidate at the Pennsylvania State University in the Graduate School of Education pursuing a dual title degree in Education Theory and Policy and Comparative and International Education. Her research focuses on history and cultural education, community participation in public education reform and socio-historical analysis of youth and student movements in education with a geographic focus on Africa. Her other research focuses on Pan-Africanist civic engagement frameworks for Africana youth and the role of racial constructions in education in Black youths’ identity development. Nanre is actively involved in social movements and youth engagement, having led a national youth organisation and worked with youth across Nigeria.
Krystal Strong
Krystal Strong is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Graduate School of Education with affiliations in Anthropology and Africana Studies. Her research and teaching focus on student activism, the cultural and political power of youth and the role of educational spaces as sites of political struggle with a geographic focus on Africa and the African Diaspora. She is currently completing her first book project entitled Political Training Grounds: Schools and youth power in Nigeria after democracy, an ethnography of post-military university student politics in southwestern Nigeria. Other research examines the role of educational development in the production of a new leadership class in Africa, and the incidence and causes of contemporary school- based protests in Africa.
