The following link will take you to a site which discusses the slave trade from the African angle. The article is written by Tunde Obadina and he discusses the following aspects of the trade:
- Economics was the driving force
- Most slaves sold by Africans
- A profitable trade
- Africans faced with a new world
- African traders resist abolition of obnoxious trade
- What if the West not abolish slavery?
- A long history of corrupt African ruling classes
- Europeans built empires, Africans drank gin
- Africa devastated by slave trade wars
- Whites assert racial superiority
- Africa's underdevelopment was not inevitable
http://www.afbis.com/analysis/slave.htm
