We observed that despite international declarations on child-rights, outsourced domestic girl-child labour still persists. Raising the question whether outsourced domestic girl-child labour constitutes hermeneutical injustice, we respond affirmatively. Relying on two indigenous victimology-narratives that are newspaper reports, we expose some of the horrors that the victims of outsourced domestic girl-child labour suffer. Comparing these reports with other victimology-narratives of hermeneutical injustice as reported by Miranda Fricker and Hilkje Hänel, we argue that the victims of outsourced domestic girl-child labour suffer a hermeneutical gap and hermeneutical interference; and that the perpetuators of this practice, help to foster what we call ‘hermeneutical obstruction’. We recommend different counteracting measures such as: a radical feminization of educational curricula, which will allow for the introduction of the relevant hermeneutical resources that female children need in making sense of their experiences, into the classrooms and other places of learning; establishing feminist liberation agencies in all schools, religious institutions and hospitals, as ways of increasing the level of awareness about the rights of the  girl-child in children and adults; feminizing legislation and legislative processes, to allow for the enactment of laws to protect the rights of the girl-child; and campaigning for a more rigorous enforcement of child-rights laws.

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The people of the Niger Delta have been in turmoil over the years, since the discovery of oil in that area in 1956. And since the indigenous government took over the oil rich land through its foreign agents the multinational companies, there has been serious agitations by the civil right and environmental activists against this occupation that has caused untold hardship to the people through the degradation of the environment in terms of oil spillages and pollution. Consequently, the non-challant posture of the Nigerian federal government over this situation had driven most people into inauthentic existence, hence the issue of militancy in the region arose from here. This paper examines these issues while submitting that authentic living as an existential imperative could be a solution to the lingering crisis in the Niger Delta, and the thrust of this paper is that Jean Paul Sartre's existentialism becomes the panacea to authentic existence.