The African Sunrise

Abstract

In this project, I worked on a creative writing in the form of a novella, which I gave the title The African Sunrise. There is need to address the challenges that are facing the boy child in our modern society such as it is being done for the girl child so that the boy child is not found lagging behind in future. My research findings indicated that activists, NGOs and the government are giving most attention to the girl child forgetting that there is a higher chance for boys to be influenced into drugs, to drop out of school, to be influenced into crime and to be imprisoned. This novella reflects the lives of young boys and the challenges that they face as they grow up especially in the lower class citizens such as drug abuse, alcoholism and petty crime, among others. This creative writing aimed at giving hope to the youth that no matter what problems they may encounter, there is hope in the end and that there is room for correction of delinquent behaviour.