Björn Beckman is a Research Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. He has published extensively on African political economy and organised interests. His current work compares African trade unions and their interventions in policy and politics.Gbemisola Adeoti is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He has contributed to scholarly journals both within and outside Nigeria. His collection of poems Naked Soles, has just been published.

• Predicament and Response: An Introduction - Björn Beckman and Gbemisola AdeotiPart I: Intellectuals, Writers, and Soldiers1. Psychopaths in Power: The Collapse of the African Dream in 'A Play of Giants' - Olusegun Adekoya2. Re-establishing the Basis of Social Order: A reflection on Achebe's Reformist Agenda and Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics - M. S. C. Okolo3. Narrating the Green Gods: The (Auto) biographies of Nigerian Military Rulers - Gbemisola AdeotiPart II: Students, Youths and People4. Ambiguous Transitions: Mediating Citizenship among Youths in Cameroon - Jude Fokwang5. Student Radicalism and the National Project: The Nigerian Student Movement - Björn Beckman 6. Transnational Governance and the Pacification of Youth: Civic Education and Disempowerment in Malawi - Harri Englund7. Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation - Nana Akua AnyidohoContributorsIndex

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Björn Beckman is a Research Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. He has published extensively on African political economy and organised interests. His current work compares African trade unions and their interventions in policy and politics.Gbemisola Adeoti is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He has contributed to scholarly journals both within and outside Nigeria. His collection of poems Naked Soles, has just been published.

• Predicament and Response: An Introduction - Björn Beckman and Gbemisola AdeotiPart I: Intellectuals, Writers, and Soldiers1. Psychopaths in Power: The Collapse of the African Dream in 'A Play of Giants' - Olusegun Adekoya2. Re-establishing the Basis of Social Order: A reflection on Achebe's Reformist Agenda and Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics - M. S. C. Okolo3. Narrating the Green Gods: The (Auto) biographies of Nigerian Military Rulers - Gbemisola AdeotiPart II: Students, Youths and People4. Ambiguous Transitions: Mediating Citizenship among Youths in Cameroon - Jude Fokwang5. Student Radicalism and the National Project: The Nigerian Student Movement - Björn Beckman 6. Transnational Governance and the Pacification of Youth: Civic Education and Disempowerment in Malawi - Harri Englund7. Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation - Nana Akua AnyidohoContributorsIndex

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Björn Beckman is a Research Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. He has published extensively on African political economy and organised interests. His current work compares African trade unions and their interventions in policy and politics.Gbemisola Adeoti is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He has contributed to scholarly journals both within and outside Nigeria. His collection of poems Naked Soles, has just been published.

• Predicament and Response: An Introduction - Björn Beckman and Gbemisola AdeotiPart I: Intellectuals, Writers, and Soldiers1. Psychopaths in Power: The Collapse of the African Dream in 'A Play of Giants' - Olusegun Adekoya2. Re-establishing the Basis of Social Order: A reflection on Achebe's Reformist Agenda and Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics - M. S. C. Okolo3. Narrating the Green Gods: The (Auto) biographies of Nigerian Military Rulers - Gbemisola AdeotiPart II: Students, Youths and People4. Ambiguous Transitions: Mediating Citizenship among Youths in Cameroon - Jude Fokwang5. Student Radicalism and the National Project: The Nigerian Student Movement - Björn Beckman 6. Transnational Governance and the Pacification of Youth: Civic Education and Disempowerment in Malawi - Harri Englund7. Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation - Nana Akua AnyidohoContributorsIndex

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