Nigerian Kidnapping Highlights Scale Of Child Trafficking In Africa

All Things Considered | May 9, 2014

Nearly 300 schoolgirls remain missing in Nigeria. For more information on the pervasiveness of child slavery in Africa, Robert Siegel speaks with Benjamin Lawrance, the Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Chair in International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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