Recent scholarship on children and migration in Africa has demonstrated that migrating children can no longer be considered as „accompanying migrants” or as the victims of the migration decision of adults. This interdisciplinary panel aims to analyze the different migratory trajectories of children in several African societies (Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Central Africa, Mayotte, Madgascar) over the last 150 years in order to explore still neglected aspects of the topic.