STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY

About the Book

This book has been written primarily for students in tertiary institutions, and also for the professional, general and inquisitive reader, who is interested in being informed about the contemporary social ills plaguing the developing world. Such problems include juvenile delinquency, crisis in education, drug abuse and the AIDS Pandemic. Others are religious intolerance, environmental degradation and female labour immobility, as well as privatization, commercialization and poverty. The authors are not only seasoned experts in their different chosen fields, and thus are armed with first hand knowledge, which is being disseminated to the world at large. The effort has been motivated by the need to provide guided material in the varied areas of socio-economic and educational domains in the developing world. The approach has been tailored in such a way that it will not only arouse and stimulate, but also captivate and sustain the interest of the reader. This authoritative book is being recommended to all who are interested in being informed about the socio-economic and educational problems bedevilling the developing world.

About the Author

Dr Kobiowu, the lead author is an Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The colleague authors are also lecturers in their various areas of domain, ranging from Education to Economics and Agriculture. All are resident in the university town of Ile-Ife. Many of the authors have traveled to different parts of the world, either for further studies of one conference or the other. They also belong to many professional associations.