Keeping the Hustle: First-Gen Students in Ghana and Zanzibar, Tanzania

Today we are discussing the capacity for first generation students in Ghana and Zanzibar, Tanzania, to "hustle." We are joined by Dr. Millicent Adjei, Director of Diversity and International Programs & Leadership Lecturer at Ashesi University in Ghana and Dr. Emily (Markovich) Morris, a Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education. Emily and Millicent, who met during their PhD program in comparative and international development education at the University of Minnesota, co-authored a thought-provoking paper titled "First Generation Students Navigating Educational Aspirations in Zanzibar and Ghana” where they developed Dr. Adjei’s concept of “hustle” for first generation students in the Global South context. Resources: Adjei, M. & Markovich Morris, E. (2020). First Generation Students Navigating Educational Aspirations in Zanzibar and Ghana. In S. Swartz (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies, 419-431. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190930028.001.0001.  Morris, E. (2021). Re/writing gendered scripts: A longitudinal research partnership reshaping gender and education policy in Zanzibar, Tanzania. In M. J. Maynes, D. Levinson, & F. Vavrus (Eds). Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents. Palgrave Macmillan. Problematizing “Dropout”: Zanzibari Youth Narratives on Being Pushed Out of School Fellow page and blogs at Brookings.