Perspectives on a New Strategy for Child Protection in Africa

Abstract

Published findings regarding child abuse in Africa is scarce and in its infancy. Nevertheless, consideration is warranted to identify implementation process stages for a protocol to be used by child protection practitioners in Africa. Children must be protected against the imperfect world that adults have created with its dangers, its wars, its violence, its shootings, its inequalities, its injustices. African children become symbols of the good which needs to be protected against the powerful, against evil ones — molesters, batterers, exploiters, child abusers, who take advantage of innocent children and treat them in selfish, cruel, inhumane, indifferent, callous ways.