ABSTRACT
In recent years, there has been a great rise in scholarly work on African children's literature. Finding its roots in folklore and oral tradition, children's literature in Africa not only promotes literary and cultural appreciation to children and young adults but at the same time development of moral values. In the meantime, before the bridge between African orality and written literature was built, children who attended colonial schools were exposed to mostly British literature. Vivian Yenika-Agbaw posits that writings after the 1960s tended to present Africa in a certain neo-colonial, stereotypical image of primitive and barbaric and she attempts to redress this imbalance. Yenika-Agbaw's apprehension is not unfounded. As she questions stereotypical representations of Africa, she also expresses the importance of content in children's literary fiction. Abidemi Sanusi's young adult novel Eyo is a poignant text that addresses the horrors of child sex trafficking in Africa.
