{"id":26352,"date":"2023-03-30T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/03\/30\/nigerias-coconut-head-generation-documentary-debunks-cliches-surrounding-youth\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:01:45","slug":"nigerias-coconut-head-generation-documentary-debunks-cliches-surrounding-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/03\/30\/nigerias-coconut-head-generation-documentary-debunks-cliches-surrounding-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&rsquo;s &lsquo;coconut head generation&rsquo;: Documentary debunks clich\u00e9s surrounding youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Nigeria, a phrase is said to be used by some older people to describe the younger cohort. They call them the \u00ab\u00a0coconut head generation\u00a0\u00bb: an insult meaning lazy and apathetic. Our guest, filmmaker Alain Kassanda, has taken that name for his documentary, which goes a long way to show quite the opposite: how many young Nigerians are politically involved and fighting for more for their country. It focuses on the lives of students at the country&rsquo;s oldest university, in Ibadan. Alain joined us for Perspective, along with the film&rsquo;s visual director, Obayomi Anthony Ayodele.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nigeria, a phrase is said to be used by some older people to describe the younger cohort. They call them the \u00ab\u00a0coconut head generation\u00a0\u00bb: an insult meaning lazy and apathetic. Our guest, filmmaker Alain Kassanda, has taken that name for his documentary, which goes a long way to show quite the opposite: how many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-26352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}