Travel has individual, societal and planetary health implications. We explored
socioeconomic and gendered differences in travel behaviour in Africa, to develop an …

This review paper focuses on the potential of widespread access to mobile phones for
improving the lives of poor people: the opportunities that mobile phones have already …

Young people's use of mobile phones is expanding exponentially across Africa. Its
transformative potential is exciting, but findings presented in this paper indicate how the …

Cell phones play a conspicuous role in the way young people in Inhambane, Mozambique,
juggle visibility and invisibility in their everyday lives. By opening up new social spaces …

Why, every year, tens of thousands of people are willing to risk their lives in perilous
voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea? Why do they face such an ordeal to …

This article investigates the rationale leading growing numbers of West African males to
pursue a career in professional football, by taking the particular case of male youth in Accra …

An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse,
topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the …

Young people in the global South are seeking employment opportunities in challenging
economic and social environments. This paper provides an overview of current debates …

The youth employment crisis in sub-Saharan Africa's towns and cities is among the region's
top development priorities. High rates of youth under-and unemployment create significant …

This paper examines access to the city as revealed by the daily travel behaviour of urban
dwellers. It is based on secondary analyses of six household travel surveys carried out in …