A 15-member royal delegation from Africa will visit Jamaica this week to hold discussions about how the trans-Atlantic slave trade affected the continent.
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It is a good initiative and a noble idea. Maybe the African royals are soul searching and concern that it was a sad period of trading with human beings, and yet we are all made in the image of God and we all share common destiny.
“Among the topics to be discussed will include how African monarchs played a role in selling their fellow Africans to colonisers to work as slaves on plantations across the Americans and the Caribbean.”
Exactly what I’ve been saying. Africans themselves sold each other into slavery & should pay the people in the Caribbean & African-Americans reparations. Yet you’ll just keep blaming Europeans.
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No race is monolithic in thought nor in action. Yes, there were some Africans that sold their own people to the slave traders. However, this was just a miniscule number of such people. The overwhelming numbers of Africans were captured by Europeans, packed on ships and sold in slavery. This in no way does stunt to exonerate the Caucasian invaders.
People of your low cognitive level of learning are too daft to engage in analyzing and evaluating.
The whole African selling each other into slavery fiasco is pushed by the same people who committed all the atrocities. It was all out of war, bombs, canons, hub powder; but they concealed that fact from you. They even teach you that they were just passing idly by when offered an African of two from another African. Why would we expect them to write anything differently? Every rapist blames their victims and even want victims to pay lawyers fees etc or accept some of the blame for getting raped, no difference. Think for yourself, the myth has been debunked by our ancestors who have dug out the truth.
Lin clown, seems you are very much alone with that view, well.. there’s Clarence Thomas too.
I believe that’s the West version of History. The Idea that there was an equal exchange of Humans for Goods / Wealth is ridiculous. Those African Countries were Colonized,
Hence, They were controlled by the Colonisers. The Idea was to extract as much wealth as possible from Africa & the Caribbean not to enrich us in anyway.
There has always been trading of human beings. This practise is much older than the new world civilizations (americas). Of course someone has to first capture or conquer those slaves. Those african tribes did in fact wage war with each other and take slaves of the losers. That’s pretty much accepted fact. Black people don’t want to accept that because it seems to be a habit of our people to not want to take responsibility for anything.
So I hope they acknowledge the part that their forefathers had to play in the slave TRADE where wealthy tribe leaders who OWNED their own black brothers SOLD them off to the white europeans. Black people now like to talk about historical figures like Mansa Musa but ignore the part where he OWNED thousands of slaves. We like to think that is only white people that had slaves and then turn this into a whole white vs black thing which is completely contrary to history.
No! They were fed the same lies that you were fed by our captors. Direct result of war, conquest and enslavement. These were all colonized, and educated by the European education and missionaries system, except Ethiopia. Almost everything they covey is from the European perspective. Some of them still wear judges wigs and other European formal regalia. They were captives, even their history was “taught” to them after totally shutting down their education and spiritual systems. The whole Dahomey fiasco made up by eurocentric historians, and all the forts along hundreds of miles of West Africa’s coast they have been “educated” to apologize for.
In your research you should find that European merchants captured, sold over one million of each other in the 1500 to 1600’s into North Africa from as far as Iceland. Many of those myths you repeat have been corrected with impeccable research by Dr. Ben Jochannan, JH Clarke and other ancestors, surpressed from you but look them up.
“Dr.” Ben Jochannan is a fraud & that’s common knowledge. No wonder your comment is complete bullsh*t, you’re an …..just like the people you look up to
Meaning you have no idea who he “was”.
You are intelligent enough to listen and learn.
Why don’t you keep your foolish comment out of this medium? Stop trying to make the audience think you know what you have posted. It is a shame to make such a comment. It is better to keep quiet when you are not knowledgeable about something rather than making a fool of yourself. Go and do some research rather than making such stupid remarks about a renowned historian.
UNAPOLOGETIC
@ Out of South City, I know you directed that respect for our ancestors to Lin Clown, but the reply button either wasn’t available or redirected, so it came nested under my comment.
Respect to you. We have to be somewhat patient with brothers/sisters who only know what’s fed to them by mainstream media or other eurocentric publications. It’s not us, the Victor sets the narrative for our People who won’t read from ancestors, let alone even know ‘who’ are our ancestors.
I concur. Our great African historians whom you have mentioned talked about our story. Since some of us do not like to research, we continue gulping down the Europeans’ lies. Also, Dr. Leonard Jefferies talks about the Jews participating in the slave trade. What we have to realise is that these colonisers did not know the interior of the continent therefore our African brothers did not have a choice. Remember, they were held at gunpoint if they did not do so.
When are we going to stop believing certain things created by those who continue our demise? They definitely are not and will not tell us the truth. We were taught that Columbus discovered Dominica but now we know that it was a lie.
We are too busy looking up to the sky for the Jesus they have given us while they continously reap our resources. Who knows whether these African leaders or sovereignty were paid for this visit and were told what to say so that the Europeans will not be responsible for reparations? Open your eye!!!
Every bit of our history ‘taught to’ us by Europeans have been pure lies to fulfill their agenda. It began with Columbus. And who wouldn’t lie “to keep” those valuable treasures they took by force of war and conquest. Read Van Sertima’s short book: They Came Before Columbus.
I agree, Aha. It’s Ivan Van Sertima to be exact. Keep up the good habit of reading Our Story, my brother. Our people need to educate themselves instead of repeating lies that the Europeans gave us.
PEACE!!!!
Finally someone is acknowledging the complicity of African kings and chiefs in the perpetration of slavery. For too long we pretended the White man just marched into the African jungle and snatched Africans and took them across the Atlantic Ocean.
These African chiefs were just as guilty of the atrocities that were heaped on our people over hundreds of years.
Who wrote that stuff, who told us so? I wouldn’t believe any of that new narrative set by state-sanctioned European and European-American historians and missionaries. It’s part of the legacy of colonialism they were force-fed to learn in order to survive colonial indoctrination and mass mu*der.
but is those same royals that sold our ancestors into slavery to the white man. now they coming and talk about the affects of slavery after they profited of slavery and squandered the wealth they made from the blood of our ancestors
wicked set of people.
the transatlantic slave trade made west Africa VERY wealthy but they squandered that wealth threw there greed , and then blame the west and Europe for them not developing there own nations. go ahead come and lie a bit more
but when will Africa pay reparations for all the money they made of the sale off our ancestors , and stop blaming the west and Europe for a trade they willingly took part in and profited from
@ double DR is going to like this – Precisely. I hope those academics and others who are always clamoring for reparation payments from Europe will also ask those African countries & the descendants of African royalty that took part in the slave trade to also pay their share of reparations for the slave trade.
These reparation chatterers cannot only want to go with their begging bowls to the descendants of white people who took part in the African slave trade. Go to the descendants of those Africans who took part in the African slave trade as well.
If they don’t, then I’ll be left with the continued suspicion that these reparation requests are just well-disguised money hunting expeditions targeting ‘the rich’.
Wishful thinking, all you talk about was written by your captors. The whole myth has been debunked. It was all out war and the victors set the narrative. Every town of Africa captured was burned, looted, schools and religious institutions shut down by the Europeans and replaced with eurocentric missionary schools weaponized to keep your people passive and in check.
As recent as 1940s, Hitler held European Jews serving as Camp Capos and Ghetto police against their own people headed to the dreaded chambers. Won’t you wanna start a campaign to have them give back billion$ reparations they’ve received because of their own participation as collaborators? War is always ugly.
Unfortunately, greed is the trademark of most black societies. Dominica is a prime example!
Almost all of African history taught to us by Europeans have been pure lies to fulfill their agenda. It began with Columbus. Read Van Sertima’s shirt book: They Came Before Columbus.