ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Published in Monograph No 82, April 2003

Africa's Young Soldiers
The Co-option of Childhood

Afua Twum-Danso


Afua Twum-Danso is currently a doctoral candidate at the Centre for West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research centres around the challenges confronting childhood in West Africa and the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child.

The two focal areas of this research are child trafficking and the involvement of children in armed conflict. Her professional background has included research in both non-governmental and media institutions. She holds a BA (Hons.) in History and Sociology from the University of Manchester and a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, UK.