New Slavery In Africa.

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3. It started as Trans-Saharan trade between 8th century until early 17th century, Trans-Saharan trade though under went several changes, historians believed it started much earlier, around 300 CE; and this trades continued in the days of three Western Sudanese empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
   Between western and eastern Sahara, which is over four to five thousand miles apart, there were different routes.
   Unfortunately, however, Trans-Saharan trade assumed another dimension by... 9th century, when Muslim Arab and Swahili trader "won the control of Swahili coast"; these traders captured Bantu people in today's "Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania."
   At the start Arabian slave trade was around Indian Ocean, Ethiopia, Somali, Egypt, Arabia, and Persian Gulf.
   

   But as soon as Islam began its spread to Europe through Al-Andalus, slavery in Africans became a good business to provide labor and domestic servants in Europe for wealthy Arabs until Islam was defeated in Europe.
   Interestingly, a period of slave trade hiatus followed, before another heinous slave trade, trans-Atlantic slave trade followed.
   For another four hundred years, over sixteen million Africans forcibly removed from their lands, torn from their cultures, ferried to the other side of Atlantic Ocean.
   While, Trans-Atlantic slave trade received so much publicity in books, journals, newspapers, little or nothing is said about the previous slave trade in Africa, which was worse in terms of physical violence, cruelty, and brutality African slaves suffered in the hands of their Arabs masters.
   In 2017, history is repeating itself, as Libya has turned to Gas chamber or concentration camps for migrant Africans on their way up north.
   So sad, that world of mankind is watching doing nothing, while United Nations is busied with unnecessary resolutions on North Korea.
   Of what use is human dignity, when humans are turned slave by fellow brothers just to re-enact or replay old tunes.
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