Sheges of Kinshasa: the sacrified children of a wounded country.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, children whatever their age, can be pushed to the streets or deliberately abandoned, they are as many targets of family anger and fear. Then, they are called sheges, a name most often synonymous with “sorcerer-children”because their families think they have brought misfortune down on them: a mother fallen victim to AIDS, ill infants, a wedding that does not happen, work not found… In a society gradually falling apart, scapegoats have to be found…
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