Showing posts with label Effects of Slave Trade on Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Effects of Slave Trade on Africa. Show all posts

Monday, 28 November 2016

Slave Trade: A Root of Contemporary African Crisis


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