Author: Agbor Agbor Enu
Department: Dept. of French, Federal University of Lafia
Date: 16/06/2025
This article seeks to raise awareness to the rapidly increasing rate at which boy children are sidelined, neglected and stereotyped in the National Rights Agenda on Child Growth and Development. Although considered through the literary work of Koutchoukalo Tchassim; Je suis le fils de quiconque m'aime, this menace is transnational. Thus, this research seeks to bring it to limelight while examining the child-narrator in our study text. It also highlights the assimilationist ideology defended by the novelist with conservation of less bothersome traditional practices and the abandonment of those deemed "perfect" in an ever-changing world. Keywords: Boy-child, Abandonment, Stereotyping, Child-narrator, Theory of National Development.
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