Social Revolutions and Governance Aspirations of African Millennials

Adegbola Ojo is Director of Teaching and Learning and Programme Leader at the School of Geography, University of Lincoln, UK. He sits on the Management Group of the Lincoln Centre for Water and Planetary Health and he is a member of the UK-Nigeria Diaspora Covid-19 Response Consortium. Adegbola is part of the Advisory Board of the African International Documentary Festival Foundation (AFIDFF). He is also Director of Innovation, Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange at AFIDFF. Adegbola is a member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) and College of Collaborating Experts, Dominican University, Nigeria. He has held scholarly positions in various Higher Education Institutions, and he combines his academic proficiency with a wealth of experience gained from industry practice.He received his PhD in Quantitative Human Geography from the University of Sheffield, his MSc in Geographic Information Science from the University College London, and his BSc in Geography and PlanningSciences from the University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. His research embraces novel transdisciplinary practices for understanding and responding to the complexities of humanitarian science, social justice and societal prosperity. He has published books, monographs, evidence reports and research articles with reputable journals. Outside his academic and research activities, he continues to actively involve himself in voluntary and charitable work with various organisations in the southern and northern hemispheres.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Salient Features of Being a Young African and the Effects of Poor Leadership.- Chapter 3. Understanding Political Strongmen and Rising Out of their Shadows.- Chapter 4. Determinants of the Propensity for Social Revolutions Among African Millennials.- Chapter 5. Mapping Africa’s Possible Future Political Geography Based on Governance Aspirations of Millennials.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.