African native, singular youth, getting nothing out of paperback (8)
I believe the answer is:
steenbok
'african native singular' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'youth getting nothing out of paperback' is the wordplay.
'youth getting' becomes 'steen' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'nothing' becomes 'O' (looks like zero - 0).
'out of' indicates named letters should be taken away ('out of' can mean no longer having).
'paperback' becomes 'book' (I've seen this before).
'book' with 'o' taken away is 'bok'.
'steen'+'bok'='STEENBOK'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for steenbok that I've seen is " Small African antelope; betokens (anagram)".)