The literature on street children in Africa at this point reveals no overall theoretical models or debates, which it has in common with all writing on street children. Yet, despite the fact that there has been no apparent effort to develop an alternative approach to the Latin American model of street children, there are glimmerings of an implicit African approach that would contextualize the lives of children who live and work in the street in other aspects of African childhoods. This challenge should be taken up in child studies in Africa as a whole.
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