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Making short films can change the way people learn. ASphotowed/iStock/Getty Plus

March 28, 2024

Making short films is a powerful way to learn job skills: 5 ways it prepares students for work

Wendy Smidt, Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Zayd Waghid, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Making films meets many needs of young people by combining the learning of soft skills, computer literacy and artistic expression.

Youth-targeted strategies are part of the authoritarian rule book in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia. Getty Images

January 7, 2024

Young Africans could disrupt authoritarian states but they don’t – here’s why

Lovise Aalen, Chr. Michelsen Institute and Marjoke Oosterom, Institute of Development Studies

Africa’s youth are not countering the deepening of autocratisation across the continent.

In the Youth Participatory Action Research program, Black youth take action on issues affecting their lives alongside receptive adults willing to act to support their ideas. (Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages)

September 5, 2023

Voices of Black youth remind adults in schools to listen — and act to empower them

Tanitiã Munroe, University of Toronto

A leadership program for Black youth sees students participate in research related to their communities and education to propose solutions to issues that affect their lives.

Ethiopians celebrate Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Nobel Peace Prize win in 2019. Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

December 8, 2022

Abiy Ahmed gained power in Ethiopia with the help of young people – four years later he’s silencing them

Lovise Aalen, Chr. Michelsen Institute and Amanuel Tesfaye, Addis Ababa University

Governments coming to power riding a wave of youth protests can employ authoritarian tactics to silence dissent from the same movements.

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