Title:   CHILD RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN AHMADOU KOROUMA’S ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED AND ELNATHAN JOHN’S BORN ON A TUESDAY

Literary artists often employ their crafts to portray shades of child rights violations which may sometimes lead to physical and psychological complications. Literary critics, therefore, have explored various degrees of child rights violations and the denial of the agency of children in many literary works. Both the writers and the critics tackle this attitude of undermining the rights of children with the hope to prick the conscience of the society against such obnoxious act. This study will add to the discourse of child rights violations as portrayed in Ahmadou Korouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged and Elnathan John’s Born On A Tuesday in order to highlight some of their grave consequences on children and the society at large. The choice of the two texts is informed by the fact that serious scholarly research in the novels have never focused on issues of child rights violations. Using the qualitative method of analysis, the study utilises the Sociological and Systems Theory to illustrate how environmental factors of social, economic, political and multiple interrelated systems breed mediums of child rights violations. The study aims at exposing the various ways in which these violations occur, and their consequential effects on the child and by extension the society. It further examines how issues of child rights violations can be completely eradicated. This study, therefore, submits that adequate parental guidance and monitoring, political will and stability, and religious tolerance, protective roles of clerics and individuals, use of child rights organisations and proper sex education could bring to an end issues of child’s right violations and abuses.

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Publication Date: 2020-12-04