User:Hatigges

Greetings From Hatigges

About Me
I am currently a Sociology Major at Drake University. I have taken several courses that piqued my interest throughout my college experience. Most recently, I enjoyed studying topics surrounding Inequality, Gender, troubles and consequences with Identity, as well as the LGBT community. I am currently enrolled in Global youth studies. One of the requirements for the class is to edit, or create a Wikipedia article. I have created a list of interests for editing/creating with the hopes of providing Wikipedia users with accurate information from a global perspective, as well as eliminating Systematic bias.

Proposal
Rather than attempting to locate a specific focal point, I would like to create a Wikipedia article titled 'Youth in South Africa'. After studying similar pages regarding youth in other countries, I have a general idea of the pertinent information necessary to provide Wikipedia users with valuable current information. For example, I will start by defining youth, as well as the population of South Africa, including the ratio that are youth, and of that number, the gender ratio. I will also include languages spoken among the youth. I will link other articles in this introduction which will include: Bantu languages, Black people, multiracial and European in order to inform readers of the multitude of coloured mixed raced that incorporate youth in South African.

Some of the headings in my article will include: childhood to adolescence, Sexual reproduction and health, labor and employment, education culture, and political movements among youth. Under each heading, I will appropriately select information supporting each heading. For example, under the heading sexual reproduction health, I will include information such as evidence of sexual risk, commercial sexual exploitation, violence in relationships, HIV/AIDS prevalence among youth, safe sex practices and HIV prevention. With this particular heading I will link several other articles including: HIV/AIDS in Africa and Sexual violence in South Africa. Under the heading education, I will include current information regarding primary, secondary, post secondary, and post graduate completion statistics. I will also seek literacy statistics. Under the heading labor and employment I will include opportunities that exist, work experience and mean wages earned, as well as unemployment rates of the youth. I hope to incorporate regular work as well as irregular work under this heading also. Under the heading political movements among youth, I will incorporate literature from the Journal of African Law which I recently located regarding speaking out inequalities. Additionally, I will link Scouting, and the South African Scout Association which is a movement that supports young people in society. I will also provide readers with information of the variety of music and past-time interests and activities for which the youth frequently involve themselves.

As previously mentioned, I will search current information. Thus far, I have found valid, useful journal articles on JSTOR which have been beneficial, especially looking at the references. I will soon visit the library in search of information to expand my exploration and am confident I will have plenty of reliable resources. I will be sure to add citations appropriately and utilize all Wikipedia resources to guide me through this process.

Change in proposal
As a result of one of my peers arriving at the same passion to explore South African youth, I have changed my goal for Wikipedia and will create the page 'Youth in Nigeria'.