Abstract:
The poor participation of youths in politics and governance in Africa may be as a result of the
indigenous African believe that wisdom is associated with the aged and thus the elderly makes for best
leaders. This has led to a lot of African nations with the worlds youngest populations as her majority
being led by some of the world’s oldest leaders. Like Nigeria for example. In the aspect of Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), we have old and unamended policies that no longer seek to
favour the mental, physical or social sexual and reproductive wellbeing of the younger and younger
African populace. The aim of this study was primarily to listen to what some African Youths proposed
for the improvement of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in their Countries. This was done
by using a validated data tool in a randomized cross-sectional study amongst 80 participants from over
11 African countries. The results showed that majority of the correspondents wanted to implement
policies to improve Comprehensive Sexual Education, Community advocacy/awareness engagements
and government policies amendments, respectively. Other areas mentioned were; improved Family
planning services and, Human and reproductive health rights. While the two people said they were
going to scale down SRHR and Do nothing concerning SRHR, respectively in their countries. No one
made mention of improving any aspect concerning the LGBTQ community, what so ever.
