What do Africans feel about the slave trade?

This is an interesting question! I was traveling in Zanzibar some years back and chartered a fishing boat. read more

Unfortunately many Africans don’t feel anything about the transatlantic slave trade or the trans Saharan one either. The reason being, too many of us don’t know much about it due to a faulty education systems, ignorance and poverty. read more

Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all of long-distance global migrations. read more

Even, between people of different African nationalities, or different ethnic associations, I don't feel connected to. I primarily first feel connected to my family units, then any associates/friends of my ethnicity, then everyone else (to varying degrees). Descendents of the slave trade would fall into "everyone else" for me. read more