Lekan Olayinka@lekan_olayinka1
Biggest Mack, I would strongly recommend you don’t spread the stench of your faux intellectualism that only survives by desperately leeching to David Hundeyin’s hubris-inflated intellectual shadow towards me.
Let me give you facts.
Everyone had slaves. Africans enslaved and sold fellow Africans for over 1,300 years in the Trans-Saharan slave trade to Arabs, many of whom castrated them. Africans sold fellow Africans.
Around 10 million Africans sold by Africans.
There was also the Indian Ocean slave trade. Around 6 million East Africans were sold to Arabs by Africans.
What about the Barbary slave trade? North Africans enslaved over a million Europeans.
Did you know that Africans took over a million white people as slaves?
Then the Arab slave trade. Between 10 to 18 million people were enslaved from East Africa, Central Africa, and even the Caucasus, many supplied through African networks.
The Ottoman and Red Sea slave trades also moved millions, with about 3 million through the Red Sea routes alone.
Across most of these systems, people were captured through war and sold. Africans were not just victims. They were also participants.
Arguably, Africans have been the biggest commercial suppliers of slaves.
However, most of these slaving trades were actual trades.
Only the Barbary Island trade was the one in which White people did not sell themselves but were forcibly captured by Africans.
So answer this.
If slavery was a global system, why is the demand for reparations selectively directed at the West?
Why are Africans who sold fellow Africans not being asked to pay reparations?
Why are Arab states, arguably among the largest historical slave traders, not at the center of this conversation?
Now to Christianity.
We cannot demand reparations from the civilization that led the abolition of slavery.
Before Christianity, slavery was universal. After it, abolition became a moral force.
Britain abolished slavery in 1833 and paid about 20 million pounds, roughly 40 percent of its national budget at the time, to compensate slave owners.
That’s around £15bn today.
That debt was so massive it was only fully paid off in 2015.
Britain also enforced abolition globally.
About 2,000 naval personnel died policing the seas to stop slave trading, often against the resistance of local rulers.
Here in Lagos, the British Royal Navy had to attack King Kosoko in 1851 to force an end to the slave trade.
After he was removed, Akitoye took power and signed a treaty abolishing it.
So what exactly is the problem with you pan Africanists and reparations?
You want to pretend slavery is why Africa is not progressing because you need a permanent excuse to avoid responsibility.
Africa’s problem is not some imaginary David Hundeyin CIA conspiracy that you latch on to with the erratic euphoria of a Pavlov Dog stricken with operant conditioning.
Ghana is already being positioned as a pawn by actors hostile to the Western bloc.
That is why you see strange alliances and sponsorships, including from the State of Palestine, a government known for paying stipends to families of suicide bombers.
This constant fixation on the West for reparations is just another form of dependency dressed up as activism.
Nothing that happened 400 years ago is stopping Africa from developing today.
And finally, Biggest Mack, you cosplay intelligence. You perform depth. You pretend to be erudite.
But you are shallow. Completely shallow.
What you are doing is the same thing as the African who lacks identity and compensates with material signals like designer clothes.
You do it with empty pan Africanism. No substance. Just noise, recycled outrage, and the temporary feeling of importance.
It is hollow.
Take that degradation somewhere else.
Such corrosive mentality shouldn’t in an African society seeking advancement.
