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Item Beyond money and gifts: Social capital as motivation for cross- generational dating among tertiary school female students in south west Nigeria(Common Ground Publishing LLC, 2010) Ojebode, A. A.; Togunde, D.; Adelakun, A.Cross generational dating is a global practice which has engaged the attention of scholars from across the social sciences and beyond. Despite the differences in the backgrounds of scholars, most have conceived cross generational dating as motivated simple by money and gifts and the satisfaction of immediate and short-term needs. This ethnographic study conducted among students on three Nigerian campuses shows that cross generational dating among Nigerian undergraduates students is motivated by the need to strengthen their social capital base. Younger partners date older ones in order to get connected for job and other placement: receive assistance with visa procurement and enhance their own in-group worth or rating. Older partners date younger ones to receive succor when their homes or jobs are troubled. Cross-generational dating, we discovered, is not a lone-ranging act but a practice that involves networking as well as different forms of pressure among ladies. Cross-generational dating may be a global phenomenon, but it wears local colors and carriers local nomenclatures. Contextualizing its study is therefore important to our understanding.Item Secrecy, security and Social exchange: new media and cross-generational dating in Nigeria(International Journals, 2011) Ojebode, A.; Togunde, D.; Adelakun, A.Although studies that examine the uses and influence of new media in Africa have always focused on national trends and mainstream groups, the peculiar appropriation of the new media by sub-cultural groups has received little attention. This paper examines the appropriation of the new media by female undergraduate students involved in cross-generational dating in southwestern Nigeria. It addresses how this group of students deploy the new media in their dating practice with older male partners, and how the new media in turn influence their activities. Drawing on ethnographic field work on three Nigerian university campuses, findings indicate that female students involved in cross- generational dating employ the new media to connect with older male partners, nurse the connections and/or to disconnect. The respondents also reveal that the new media are highly valued because they ensure secrecy, which is important in their practice of cross-generational dating. Through their utility in tracking members of the group, the new media are helpful for security purpose. The media have also come to be a status symbol within and outside the group, and to signify a currency of exchange. There is a reciprocal relationship between cross-generational dating and the use of exotic