Author: Aubrey Meza

African Child Labor

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Research Question: Why isn’t child labor in Africa being taken more seriously and brought up more frequently by the rest of the world? Thesis: All over Sub-Saharan Africa, child labor is practiced in mines, domestic households, and on many chocolate plantations.

  • Topic Sentence #1: Gold mines across the African Sahel house child workers and are abusive, forcing children to hack stones to dust with handmade pickaxes and axes, paying them less than two dollars a day or none, and the mines have no safety restrictions.
  • Topic Sentence #2: Many chocolate plantations in the African Sahel traffic children for slavery, and the children are mostly sold by oblivious relatives, they are young as five years old, and the children are beaten constantly for not working fast enough or even if their boss is in a bad mood.
  • Topic Sentence #3: Domestic slavery is another form of child labor, for about two hundred fifty three thousand children in Africa (mostly South Africa and Kenya), are used as slaves, most are girls, and many are continuously exposed to toxic chemicals or waste, and inadequate food replenishments.

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