Africa has been called the “Dark Continent” - not because of the dark skin of the native people, but because we tend to know so little about it. We, the Americans, who read the newspaper every day, are often completely unaware of the horrors happening behind our backs.

 

While we weren’t watching, an entire continent fell into chaos. The Dark Continent, riddled with war and violence, suffering from disease and poverty, full of modern-day orphans and slaves. The prime targets? Children. Children used as soldiers, pawns, slaves. Children living on their own, starving, manipulated and taken for granted and taken advantage of, left alone and helpless amidst the chaos and destruction of war, that darkest side of human motivation.