This thesis examines the enduring nature of child labour on Ivory Coast’s cocoa farms. It focuses on the influences of traditions and customary practices underpinning the child labour practice. It shows the adverse role of Multinational Corporations operating in Ivory Coast’s cooca industry. The thesis also shows that, despite Ivory Coast being a signatory to the ILO Convention on the Woest Forms of CHild Labour 1999 (No. 182), the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1999) as well as other regional and sub-regional legal instruments, the appropriate legal and policy response to child labour has yet to be provided. The thesis, therefore, offers the pedagogic approach as the shifting factor.