Slavery Abolition

The establishment of the Organisation of African Unity on this day,  May 25, 1963 gave hope that Africans, at home and in the diaspora, finally had an institution through which they will reverse the centuries of humiliation, exploitation, oppression and dehumanisation visited on us through slavery and colonialism. However, through…

Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative. He once wrote that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.” He’s said that “sodomy” is worse than “slavery”; abortion, he’s written, is “as great an evil as slavery” due to what he sees as its ability to spark…

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The data shows that schools have “diversified” their syllabi after the Conservative government encouraged the inclusion of “cultural change” in the curriculum. British children are being taught about the transatlantic slave trade instead of historical events like the victories at Waterloo and Trafalgar, a new study has found. Only 11…

Before sunrise in Baltimore on Friday, the Rev. Robert Turner, senior pastor of the Empowerment Temple AME Church, set out to walk 43 miles from his church to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Turner, who has made the trip from Baltimore…

Seventy-eight of the 150 young Nigerian women trafficked to Cote d’Ivoire for sex slavery were safely returned to the country in the early hours of Sunday, May 11. In April, social critic, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan raised alarm about the conditions of the trafficked girls. Thankfully, they returned home…

Seventy-eight of the 150 young Nigerian women trafficked to Cote D’Ivoire for sex slavery have arrived in Lagos aboard Air Peace flight. They comprised 75 females between aged 13 and 30, three babies and two adult males with the majority of them looking malnourished and battered. About four of them,…

Achilles, a supply chain management software company, has published its latest UK Ethical Business Annual Report. Based on data collected through Achilles’ Ethical Business Programme, the report draws from interviews with 9,834 construction workers representing 102 nationalities, across hundreds of sites in the UK and Ireland. These insights provide a…

The Federal Government on Sunday issued a strong warning to Nigerians about the growing menace of cyber-slavery, a rising form of human trafficking that is increasingly targeting young people in the region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement signed by its spokesperson Kimiebi Ebienfa, expressed deep concern over…

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