Browsing: Slavery

According to the UK’s newly-elected opposition leader, we should be grateful that Britain ended slavery – and should stop moaning about the past. Remarkably, Kemi Badenoch…

The portrayal of Scots as abolitionists and liberal champions hides a long history of Scottish profiting from the enslavement of Africans. The wealth accumulated from the…

“I’m grateful that we were finally rescued, but the scars of that time are still with me,” is a harrowing sentiment from one of the Ghanaian…

In another outlandish post, US-based billionaire (who comes from a settler colonial family in South Africa) and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk did a quote…

During the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (New York, 24-30 September 2024), the president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), Edgar Leblanc Fils, delivered…

Julian McCall moved from the United States to China when he was 15. He was expecting police to pull him over while running, wearing a hoodie,…

The 25th of March is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. During four centuries, between 10-12 million Africans…

African Stream sat down with Ezayi Jules, a Haitian from the organisation MOLEGHAF (National Movement for Liberty and Equality of Haitians for Fraternity) – to discuss…