Fattening For Gabon-also represents today’s era, showing the harsh realities of child trafficking and the unlikely people behind it all.Children being promised a trip to Gabon, a place where they have for long known to be very beautiful, yet they don’t know what is expected of them once they get there.
Fattening for Gabon represents a story where two young children are forced to leave their weak and poor parents to live with their uncle. The two children are taken to be sold by their uncle; however after spending time with them, something happens. Yewa and Kotchikpa are the protagonist, they are taken from home by their uncle since their parents are sick, he promises to take care of them but little do they know that he plans sell them, their uncle Fofo is the antagonists since he promises them a better life but he is lying.
Fattening the Gabon key events
- Leaving their parents
- Introduction to fofo
- Going to school
- Adapting to the new language and learning it
- Getting new names
- Trip to Gabon
- Getting a new mama
- Uncle fofo’s behavior change
- Planning the escape