Dr Sacha Hepburn who is a historian of modern Africa at Birkbeck, University of London speaks at length, among other things, about the effects of racialized constructions of African childhood
on the occasion of the International Day of the African Child. She specialises in histories of gender, age, work, and the environment, and she is the author of Home Economics: Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa (2022) and a number of published essays.