Deprived Children In An African Ghetto
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2000-02-16
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
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.
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Inculturation, Church, Doctrine, Street Children, Poverty, prophets