A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE
Western writers have often distorted the 19th century slavery narrative in Eastern and Central Africa by portraying European explorers and adventurists as gallant saviors, the Arab slaver as brave - "swaggering in a flowing kanzu, a wide embellished belt on his waist and a dagger loosely secured on his body" - and the African slave as a spectator without a voice.
Many of those accounts were dramatized to depict Africans as beastly and sub-human who enjoyed to be enslaved. The truth is that no one in the history of humankind has suffered the indignity, abuse, and pain of slavery than the African. Millions of them were uprooted from the interior of the "Dark Continent" and sold off like merchandise to traders all over the world, yet the story told by missionaries and explorers has been one-sided.
The Wretched Africans, written by a slave descendant, seeks to change that. It explains what really happened to the estimated eleven million people taken captive from the east coast of Africa by Arabs and transported to the new world and beyond.
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8 年No, not that kind of a slave Marianne Dang'ana
Editor
8 年What's a slave if not me.
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8 年Well said Cholmondeley
Director
8 年It was a sin and its both a sin and a crime today. Its an abuse of the highest order , one that the human race shall never advocate for again. It was wrong, incorrect and unpleasing before the eyes of God and fellow humans. Whoever was part of it shall always be indebted to the victims .
PRESENTER / PRODUCER at royal media services
8 年kazi nzuri sana, mpaka nikitie mkononi nipate undani. Pongezi