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Pity and outcry: those are the two emotions that the reader will
certainly experience reading the “Diary of a Today-African Child-Slave”!
The Diary of a Today-African Child-slave
is a novel dealing with social matters. It relates in the shape of a
diary-meant for an unknown, Pamela –the terrible life of a young maid.
Agathe looses her name and her parents at the same time. Adjo, her
modern slave name will be given to her by her first masters, owners of a
small company of slave children in Gabon. Her situation will grow worst
when “realeased” and doomed to every sort of work in her own country.
Sometimes, she feels herself as being in the situation of Agathe or
Adjo. In turns, she turns back to Agathe when arises a hope for a new
life, a real life, a worthy life but still the fate irreparably throws
her back to Adjo.
Being a true scourage in sub-Saharan and northern Africa, Child slavery
practiced by some adults is a proven fact often concealed behind too
good intention : “whihout this work, that child would be out on the
street” they say. This surprising story was awarded the France-Togo
literary in 2001 .
From the ghetto of Gabon (first part of the
novel) to surprises of destiny through family
hell, Agathe or Adjo (either way) the tragic
heroine whose fate has been sealed in advance by
a divine verdict, will endure countless emotional
and physical tortures which will culminate at
the end of the novel where maybe she finds
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