Category: Citizenship

The Power of Youth-Led Protests in Highly Divided Societies

On By DabesakiIn Citizenship, Corruption, Good governance, Leadership, Polarisation, Protests, Uncategorized, Youth, Youth Participation1 Comment

I have been thinking about the relationship between polarisation and youth-led protests for the better part of this year. This note is an initial foray into the topic as a way to build a much broader body of thinking on the links between the two, often competing, themes. Africa has had its fair share of …

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Is Loyalty a Requirement for Citizenship?

On By DabesakiIn Citizenship, Commonwealth, Ethics, Nigeria, Shamima Begum, Statelessness, United Kingdom, United StatesLeave a comment

I had implied in my first article in this series that loyalty is a requirement for citizenship. My friend, Omowumi Ogunrotimi, did not agree. She argued that if citizenship is acquired by birth, then a person need not meet any pre-conditions for it. I contend that this view only partially reflects the reality - as …

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