Narratives of Long-Term Street Children in Moshi, Tanzania There is an estimated 100 million street children worldwide (Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, 2011) with a further estimate of 600 street children in Mwanza alone, Tanzania’s second largest city (Lockhart, 2002). Some attempts have been made to monitor the increase in numbers. For example, estimation of numbers sky rocketed from 200 – 300 street children in 1991 in Dar es Salaam to 3,500 in 1995 (Bamurange, 1998). These
America is a much maligned and misunderstood tragedy. Some understand it as a personal failing while others approach it as an epidemic that is gripping the nation. In either case, addiction is one of the most destructive forces a person can endure and those who suffer with it are often reduced to their basest components in search of prolonging their dependence on drugs and alcohol. Denis Johnson tackles substance abuse and addiction in Jesus’ Son, an anthology of short stories that follow protagonists’