African Enslaving Africans: Human Sex Trafficking as a Trans-National Crime; The Edo-Italy Relations

Abstract

Africans have for a long time blamed Europeans for their enslavement and exploitation and have dubbed their interactions with Europeans as the reason for Africa’s underdevelopment. However, this is an age where Africans under-develops Africa and enslave their kinsmen by turning them into commodities and transporting them to Europe for sexual slavery and exploitation. Edo state has been reputed to be the recruitment hub of these slaves and this has earned Nigeria a negative label by international human rights organisations. It is therefore the aim of this work to probe the causes and implications of sexual trafficking in Nigeria and proffer possible solutions to the menace.