HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN FICTION. A STUDY OF CHIKA UNIGWE’S ON BLACK SISTERS’ STREET AND IFEANYI AJAEGBO’S SARAH HOUSE

ABSTRACT

Human trafficking is a global phenomenon, and in most cases, women are core victims of trafficking for sexual purposes. The push and pull factors are what contribute to the growth of trafficking, in which traffickers use the pull factors to lure vulnerable women and girls into this global capitalist flesh trade. This study will be using Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street and Ifeanyi Ajaegbo’s Sarah House as case study to examine how women are being subjected to all forms of exploitation and oppression in the world of trafficking. The theoretical approach to this study is Marxist Feminism which reveals how powerful individuals (traffickers) gain wealth through the business of buying and selling of women for sexual purposes, thereby exploiting and robbing them of their self-worth and dignity as humans in a classed society.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Certification Acknowledgements

Dedication

Table of contents Abstract

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Background to the Study

1.2 Statement of the Problem

1.3 Aim and objective

1.4 Research questions

1.5 Significance of the Study

1.6 Scope of the Study

1.7 Research Methodology

1.8 Theoretical Framework

1.9 Operational of Terms

CHAPTER TWO

2.1 Review of Related Literature

2.2 Theoretical Framework 12

2.2.1 Marxist Feminist Theory

2.3 Overview of Human Trafficking

2.3.1 Migration

2.3.2 Prostitution 18

2.3.3 Human Rights 19

2.3.4 Modern Day Slavery 21

2.3.5 Gender Inequality 22

CHAPTER THREE

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF BLACK SISTER’S STREET BY CHIKA UNIGWE

3.1 Chika Unigwe’s Biography

3.2 Synopsis

3.3 Setting

3.4 The time frame and place

3.5 Geographical Location

3.6 Characterizations

3.7 Technique of the writer

3.8 Human Trafficking in On Black Sisters’ Street 32

3.8.1 Trafficking of Women and Prostitution in On Black Sisters’ Street 32

3.8.2 Sexual Objectification of Trafficked women 36

3.8.2 Exploitation (Economic) 38

CHAPTER FOUR

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF SARAH HOUSE BY IFEANYI AJAEGBO

4.1 Ifeanyi Ajaegbo’s Biography 40

4.2 Synopsis 40

4.3 Setting 42

4.4 Human Trafficking in Sarah House 43

4.4.1 Trafficking of Women and Prostitution in Sarah House 43

4.4.2 Sexual Objectification of Trafficked women 48

4.4.3 Exploitation (Economic) 50

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 Summary

5.2 Conclusion

5.3 Recommendation

Works Cited