Anon Submission
I donât want to talk about politics. Just a little history. When the Portuguese arrived in African lands, more than 400 years ago, they did not go to develop the business of slavery. The business of selling slaves already existed, many centuries before the Portuguese arrived there. Ghanaians, Angolans and Congolese had control of the business together with the Arabs, exporting people to what is Arabia, Iran, and even India, hunting people from Ethiopia for example. When slaves began to be exported to the New World, it was not that the Portuguese invented the business, they only began to participate in it, doing what Muslims did: transporting merchandise. In what is known as the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, in which an estimated 6â7 million people, including from the Sokoto and Borno Caliphate, were forcibly transported to North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. This took place a period of more than 1,250 years.
The curious thing, and that is why I explain this, is that the elites of the African kingdoms were more than willing to sell out their political enemies, their annoying relatives, their rivals⌠Read the interesting history of the kingdom of Ndongo, in which King Nzinga Mbemba, Alfonso I for the Portuguese, sold prisoners of war from kingdoms opposed to his to the Portuguese, since Kongo, Dahomey, Yoruba, Benin and Asante, they were at war, as did his mother, Nzingha Mbande.
In other words, slavery was used by African monarchs for their direct benefit. As it happens today.
Now, in Mali and much of West Africa, they continue exactly as they did more than 500 years ago: they continue to sell people into slavery, give people away at weddings of wealthy people, inherit them in wills. And the slavers are direct descendants of the same slavers who sold the ancestors of the people of Jamaica, Brazil, the United StatesâŚ40 million people are slaves today, mostly in Africa and Asia. The top ten countries in modern slavery are North Korea, Eritrea, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Mauritania, South Sudan, Pakistan, Cambodia and Iran.
Where is the voice of the people of Jamaica to argue against this? If your politicians are so aware of slavery, why donât they speak out against the descendants of those who actually enslaved and sold them, such as various members of the current african elite, who continue to enslave and sell people?
When Prince William is pointed out for the âstainâ that the British Monarchy has with slavery, or it is pointed out that Meghan Markleâs false discourse of racism could have had effects on the people of Jamaica for example to want to be a republic, why does nobody seem to care that today, now, at this moment, direct descendants of slave owners and slave traders, in Africa, continue with the business?
It is not the past damage that needs to be repaired. Because past damage is beyond remedy. It is the damage of today, now, that is going unpunished.





























