Waiting discussion

The use of children as narrators/protagonists in African literatures is becoming common; and gaining critical/theoretical acceptance. Perhaps nowhere is the child narrator 'motif'so manifest than in the so-called Third generation Nigerian writers. It has been argued that the child's voice is that of hybridity, resistance, and even Afropolitan, inter alia. But does this not also limit the novelistic/narrative depth, philosophically and psychologically? I have Waiting's Alinda in mind when I pose this question...