Slavery in modern Africa

that Africa, as a continent and as an idea, holds no meaning African Americans, and the answer is yes. African and the modern African American have little to no connection at all. To the average African American individual born and raised in the United States of America, Africa is just an idea misconstrued by varies Eurocentric images and ideas. Ideas to some extent summed up in the concept of the dark continent. The fact of the matter is that from the time Africans were transported from Africa…

Slavery between chattel Africa and New World Africa both were strong manners of oppression that were used to be a tool of fear and oppression. New World slavery often described with ostracizing the victim, is not usually thought of as a way to oppress someone especially in Modern Day Western Civilization. A contrived conception of African slavery by white oppressors often comes with the almost blaming of the African peoples who were in fact enslaved. Oppressors claiming that New World slavery…

Slavery and indentured servitude are equivalent but very contrary. Most of us are aware of what slavery is. But do you know what indentured servitude is? Let’s figure out the similarities and the differences between these two subjects. The next few paragraphs explain this topic, slavery vs. indentured servitude. To start off, I’m going to give you an overview of slavery. Slavery has existed since previous to the time of Jesus. But back into modern times, in the 1600s colonists in the new world…

Fortunately, just as abolitionists rose up to speak against the evils of slavery during the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, modern-day abolitionists have also decided to expose and fight against the evils proliferating the world. Political interventions have been made in an attempt to abolish modern-day slavery. Former U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, responsed to modern-day slavery by stating, “Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time” (Batstone 1).…

the institution of slavery than is often examined. This work begins to question our previous knowledge of the slave trade and forces us to look at the story from a perspective that as a society we may not want to acknowledge. Her work demands a deeper understanding of the institution of slavery be known and no longer allows society to perpetuate the misunderstandings of slavery and Africa that we have been perpetuating since the trade started. Often we are taught slavery from a Western…

The history of slavery spans many cultures and religions, from ancient times to modern day. Almost every country practiced it including America, Africa, Europe and Asia. The earliest forms of slavery can be tracked back to the ancient Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi and other ancient civilizations such as the Sumerians and Egyptians. However, there were many differences including total population, the punishments they faced, and overall purpose and origin of slaves in specific locations. Some…

All? The appropriate role of a citizen is speaking up for and being the voice of those who are voiceless. According to John Bowe, author of Nobodies: Does Slavery Exist in America? social change comes from those who are privileged enough to have a voice in their society. Moreover, Nelson Mandela, the influential former president of South Africa and author of Long Road to Freedom, believes that this transformation can come from those ordinary, everyday citizens who are oppressed and who have…

Uganda is a landlocked country, located in East Africa. Kenya borders Uganda to the East, South Sudan to the North, to the West by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to the South by Tanzania. The current population estimate is 37,873,253. Ugandans can be classified into several broad linguistic groups: The Bantu-speaking majority, who live in the central, southern and western parts of the country; and non-Bantu speakers who occupy the eastern, northern and northwestern portions of the…

not realize that slavery still happens today. When most people think of slavery they think of things like chains and whippings and people being stolen from their homes in Africa to be shipped in slave ships to be sold to work in cotton and tobacco fields. Modern slavery isn’t quite like that, but it is still slavery. People are forced to work in horrible conditions for only a fraction of the pay that they rightfully earned and someone else profits from their labor. Modern slavery happens all…

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was a huge issue in the 1800s. Many Africans have suffered and never knew it would be the last time they might live. Slavery is what happens when innocent people’s voices fail to be heard, and rights go down the drain. The world now began to discriminate by race, and a new world has been created. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade affected all Africans socially, economically and psychologically, and even until today the wounds haven’t been healed. The first stage of…