Depictions of Human Trafficking and Exploitation in Contemporary Africa Using Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Apio Eunice Otuku’s Zura Maids

dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Ocan
dc.contributor.authorDenis, Sekiwu
dc.contributor.authorCharles Nelson, Okumu
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T16:08:38Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T16:08:38Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn 2020, the government of Uganda reported investigating 214 incidents of human trafficking involving 154 suspects; of these incidents, 118 were internal, 93 transnationals, and three unknowns. This was a decrease compared with investigating 252 incidents (19 internal and 222 transnational) in 2019. This article examines how human trafficking and exploitation impacts on young girls from developing countries using Akachi Dimora Ezeig’s novel; ‘Trafficked’ and Apio Eunice Otuku’s ‘Zura Maids’. Using content analysis, the study engages critical discourse of postcolonial tenets understand the creation of inferiority complex, identity crisis, and cultural erosion among the colonized. As a result of social justice principle of “otherness”, which is a binary opposition between “I/We” and “Them”, the study packages the problem neatly, but offers few solutions for Africa, whilst condemning human trafficking and exploitation as a heinous act on humanity.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKabale Universityen_US
dc.identifier.citationOcan, J., Okumu, C. N. & Sekiwu, D. (2022). Depictions of Human Trafficking and Exploitation in Contemporary Africa Using Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Apio Eunice Otuku’s Zura Maids. East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 5(1), 193-209. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.5.1.688en_US
dc.identifier.issnPrint : 2707-4277/Online : 2707-4285
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/657
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEast African Journal of Arts and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries;Volume 5, Issue 1
dc.subjectHuman Trafficking, Depictions, Forced Labour, Exploitation, Contemporary Africa, Maidsen_US
dc.titleDepictions of Human Trafficking and Exploitation in Contemporary Africa Using Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Apio Eunice Otuku’s Zura Maidsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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