Nigerian Youth Leadership and Social Change(Olalaken Oshunkoya & Didi Littlejohn)

In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Ola talks with his friend Didi about how exposure to different places at an early age helped motivate his commitment to social change in Nigeria, and how his work as a lawyer in the UK and as a researcher in the US all connect back to open government, youth empowerment and social change in his home country of Nigeria. They emphasize the need to invest in young people, how to change international development system, and how corruption is a great barrier to development and progress in Nigeria and beyond. Olalaken Oshunkoya is founder of eCove in Abuja, Nigeria and is currently completing his PhD investigating corruption and judicial reform in Nigeria. Didi Littlejohn is a media literacy advocate, social researcher, songwriter, educator and now analyst based in D.C.