Earlier this year, in the northern city of Kaduna in Nigeria, more than 300 young students were discovered chained in a small room. They had been physically and sexually abused at an extremist Islamic school, which ostensibly recruited them to build their ‘resilience’, but it was later discovered that the children were being radicalized there to become terrorists. Although slavery is abolished in all countries, the practice still widely takes place in new forms to adapt to modern changes. A practice akin to it is human trafficking, which involves the recruitment, harboring or transportation of people into a situation of exploitation through the use of violence, deception or coercion, where they are forced to work against their will. In other words, enslaving them for personal gain and profit. Regarded as the third largest criminal enterprise globally, the victims of human trafficking have been suffering in the shadows for a long time, with approximately 45.8 million people enslaved worldwide. In Africa alone, which is where a majority of trafficking takes place, an estimated 9.24 million individuals are enslaved. The efforts done to stop it fall short compared to the magnitude of…
‘A Trafficked Child Today Is A Terrorist Tomorrow’: Meet the Woman Working to End Human Trafficking in Africa
November 6, 2019
