Saturday, April 06, 2019

And FB blocks our posts?!!-----Child Brides in Africa Are Advertised on Facebook and Sold to Old Men

Child Brides in Africa Are Advertised on Facebook and Sold to Old Men:
  • In one Nigerian community, illiterate fathers have learned from their sons that Facebook is a good way to let buyers know their daughters are for sale.
OBANLIKU, Nigeria—Monica, 16, is one of two sisters sold as wives to men who found their photographs on their father's Facebook page and contacted him. 
She and her 14-year-old younger sister...fell victims to a culture which subjects little girls, some as young as 10, to de facto slavery through a tradition called “money marriage.”
Like hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of girls from the Becheve clan who are victims of money marriages, Monica and her sister were sold without their consent. 
Their father wanted to clear the debt he owed to a distant relative. 
“My father knew nothing about Facebook until my elder brother bought him a smartphone and convinced him to join Facebook and post our photographs whenever he likes,” Monica told The Daily Beast. 
...In effect, they use Facebook, quite literally, as a face book..."
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