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Slavery in the Sahel region (and to a lesser extent the Horn of Africa) exists along the racial and cultural boundary of Arabized Berbers in the north and darker Africans in the south. [8] Slavery in the Sahel states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan in particular, continues a centuries-old pattern of hereditary servitude. [9]
Financial reparations are long overdue to Africans and the diaspora as compensation for the enslavement of people of African descent, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday on the ...
Prince Tete, a local, leans against a fence of a mass grave at the Assin Praso heritage site, Ghana. (Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters) ADIDWAN, Ghana — Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his ...
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Ghana is a sovereign country in West Africa. It was a British colony until 6th March 1957 , when it became the first country, south of the Sahara to gain independence . The fundamental rights of a Ghanaian has been enshrined in the Chapter 5 of the 1992 Constitution. [ 2 ]
Cape Coast Castle (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders. It was originally a Portuguese "feitoria" or trading post , established in 1555, which was named Cabo Corso .
Slavery was extremely common among the Tuareg peoples and many still hold slaves today. [84] [85] When British rule was first imposed on the Sokoto Caliphate and the surrounding areas in northern Nigeria at the turn of the 20th century, approximately 2 million to 2.5 million people there were enslaved. [86]
The transoceanic slave ships were targeted by the Royal Navy, and the trade faded away. The abolition of slavery did not end the forced labor of children, however. The first missionaries to pre-colonial Ghana, were a multiracial mixture of European, African, and Caribbean pietists employed by Switzerland's Basel Mission. The Basel Mission had ...