African Children in Peril: The West's Toxic Legacy

Sub-Saharan Africa has a mortality rate of up to thirty times greater than in the West, due to the West's systematic subjugation and exploitation of the region over the centuries. African Children in Peril shows how Britain has been at the center of this catastrophe, involving millions of child deaths due to its involvement in the slave trade and its Imperial and colonizing history. However, there can be hope, as Brian Waller explores Africas positive responses to these events and suggests how the West can assist African leaders in helping them to make the curse of child malnutrition and early deaths history.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 28 April 2023
Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Why do millions of African children die before their fifth birthday?
In African Children in Peril, Brian Waller takes his immense experience in working with children and families, both home and overseas, and looks critically and boldly at why enormous numbers of infant children in sub-Saharan Africa die so young. This is a mortality rate of up to thirty times greater than in the West. It has not been an accident of climate, corruption, or geography. It has happened because of the West's systematic subjugation and exploitation of the region over the centuries without regard to how this might impact on the region's families and very young children.

African Children in Peril shows emphatically and meticulously how Britain has been at the center of this catastrophe involving many millions of child deaths as a consequence of its involvement in the slave trade and its Imperial and colonizing history. It goes on to describe both America's indifference to African children's health needs and its readiness to profit from the continent at every turn.

But there can be hope. Alongside this tragic detailing of research and conclusions, Brian Waller explores Africa's positive responses to these events and suggests how the West, and particularly the United States and Britain, might now assist African leaders in helping them to make the curse of child malnutrition and early deaths history. The time is now.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803136547