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    Deprived Children In An African Ghetto
    (Tangaza University College, 2000-02-16) Mulenga, John Bosco
    As the title suggests, my commitment in this paper is to look at the situation of children in the ghetto setting in view of stretching out the question of deprivation. For the sake of appropriation, I am compelled to analyse this question in relation to the cause, which I believe, lies in the unjust and oppressive structural environment. Both the question of deprivation and the oppressive environment belong to the same ecosystem because they influence each other and are closely linked. They are inseparable. Any strenuous effort towards the eradication or rather, the transformation of the slum-children's appalling life situation would be to no avail if the unjust and oppressive environment is not eradicated or even transformed. Any social transformation depends on the transformation of the contagious environment: the most dangerous "sick who walk " Certainly, my task in this paper is not to offer a solution to the subhuman life-situation of the slum children. But rather, to suggest afresh that while it is good to roll up our sleeves in our meticulous care and concern for the deprived and depraved, it is even better to consider the environmental background of oppression as well.