Favour Ayodele·Oct 27How the Slave Trade Quietly Blurred Southern Nigeria’s BordersA boundary dispute is hard to settle when someone gains from keeping it open. Here is how an unsettled line becomes a political tool.
Favour Ayodele·Oct 26How the Slave Trade Quietly Blurred Southern Nigeria’s BordersLong before British officers drew provincial lines, another force had already been reshaping who controlled which land, creek and trade…
InThis Week, Those BooksbyThis Week, Those Books·Oct 25In search of the roots of BrazilTwo classics offer clues, a winding trail through colonial history and mindsets
Ahmed Mahmoud·Jul 29The Civilisation That Never WasEntrepreneurs in Human Flesh: Why Ethiopia Cannot Claim Ancient Civilisation Without First Reckoning with Its Slave-Trading RulersA response icon1A response icon1
InTHE COMMON SENSE WORLDbyPeter Kriger·Jul 25The Sugar Trail: How Breakfast Built the Transatlantic Slave TradeNobody ever needed it. For the whole of human existence before the sixteenth century, our species got along on honey, fruit, and the…
Ejuchegahi A. Angwaomaodoko·Jul 10France and the Irony of Repealing the Code Noir 178 Years LaterThe contradiction becomes even more glaring when one considers the image France has projected to the world for years.
Oge Samuel Okonkwo, PhD·Jun 29The Igbo Reparations Case: Evidence, Not Sentiment5 million. 35 million. One argument.
Oge Samuel Okonkwo, PhD·Jun 24266,000 Died at Sea: The Biafra CrossingLovejoy’s numbers. Virginia’s origin.
William P Fleming, MD·Apr 19Ship Surgeons of the African TradeMedical Witness to the Miseries of the Slave Ship
D. P. Lankiewicz·Mar 3The End of the International Slave Trade and the Transformation of the Southern Slave EconomyIn 1808, the United States officially banned the international importation of enslaved Africans, following the constitutional authorization…
