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With the unfolding events around the world in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, it is no longer news that the whole world is enmeshed in deep economic and socio-political problems. Nations, world leaders, and international as well as regional bodies are daily seeking ways of pulling the world out of this multifarious socio-economic quagmire. From the “Arab Spring” and “the Eurozone Crisis,” to poverty coupled with war, famine, epidemics, and other scourges ravaging African countries, it becomes an endless catalogue of woe, suffering, and anguish often leading to unwarranted and untimely deaths of both young and old on the African continent.
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Olusoji, S.O. (2014). From the Street to Stardom: The Socio-Economic Empowerment of Nigerian Youth through Music. In: Falola, T., Abidogun, J. (eds) Education, Creativity, and Economic Empowerment in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438508_14
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