Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

The terms mentorship and godfatherism have become household concepts. They serve to distinguish people who are versed in experience and so have played very important roles in the life and growth of others, less experienced than they are. In more specific terms, their experiences serve the youths; who mark the teeming growing generation in need of direction. Without the knowledge of what these consist in, many youths have fallen prey to the manipulative hands of certain members of the elite class who take advantage of them and exploit their potentials for ill-ends. A just and humane society takes interest in the growth and development of its youths. Employing the analytic method, this paper serves to highlight the demarcating lines between mentors and godfathers, and then chart a course that favours the development of the youths in their quest for life-changing experiences.

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