Why do millions of African children die before their fifth
birthday? In African Children in Peril, Brian Waller takes his
enormous 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 hasn't been an accident of climate or 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 centre of this catastrophe involving many
millions of child deaths as a consequence of its involvement in the
slave trade and its Imperial and colonising 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.
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