Across Africa today, millions of adults and children are living in slavery. Political instability, poverty, lack of employment opportunities and violent conflicts are among the driving forces. Yet, many African governments have been slow to respond.
It is remarkable that while we never seem to catch a break from the endless leftwing criticism of what White men did in Africa hundreds of years ago, the same groups are not interested in addressing the slavery in Africa today, done to Africans by Africans.
African Slavery in Modern Africa: “Modern day slavery is pervasive in Africa. The problem is wide spread in regions affected by conflicts of various kind. Across Africa, more than 3.8 million are subjected to forced labor and over 3 million in forced marriages.
African Slavery in Modern Africa: Global studies pinpoint three countries on the continent as particularly prone to engage in slavery.
“The Global Slavery Index covers 160 nations across the globe,” says Catherine Bryant, director of operations Walk Free to Deutche Welle. “We see that the countries that have the highest prevalence of forced labor and forced marriage tend to be those that are characterized by conflict. Across Africa, we see countries such as Mauritania, that has high prevalence of modern slavery. South Sudan and Eritrea also have a high level of conflict and also high levels of modern slavery.”
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African Slavery in Modern Africa: Slavery persists in most stable African countries, the article points out.
“There are 91.000 people in Ghana trapped in modern slavery,” says Elisabeth Poku, programs coordinator in Global Freedom Network. “If it is labor exploitation, someone can be trafficked to do farming, street hawking, gold mining. A lot of women are being trafficked from Nigeria to Ghana to be on the streets. It is a huge problem.
Historically, slavery was a universal institution, practiced in many cultures and societies including African, Arab, and European. Modern political discourse on slavery and reparations completely lacks balance, overlooking other historical slave systems.
Is racism against whites the reason for the constant focus on black slavery, but not white slavery? Why are not all systems of slavery equally discussed, but only the European transatlantic slave trade?
The legacy of the British Empire’s abolitionist efforts were unique in their moral commitment and economic sacrifice. Neither African nor Arab cultures have had any similar movements to stop slavery, which exists to this day both in Africa and in Arab nations.
So, why is the current European narrative only examining the slave trade that brought black slaves to America, and not all the other forms of slave trade where blacks sold their black brothers into slavery?
African Slavery in Modern Africa: The calls for so-called reparations are often one-sided and represent a racism against whites as it is only British slavery in focus, without acknowledging the broader history of slavery worldwide that involved blacks or Arabs selling black slaves.
By focusing solely on what the white man did several hundred years ago, but neglecting to mention that black Africans and Arabs did exactly the same, constitutes a clear racism against whites.
The Barbary slave trade is contrasted with the British Empire’s transatlantic slave trade in a Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News in conversation with Rafe Heydel-Mankoo. They discuss the little-known history of the white Barbary slave trade and explains the hypocrisy of the Left, who are silent about that atrocity as well as the fact that Africans held more slaves than were ever transported across the Atlantic.
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