Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:13:55 +0000 Last week I wrote about the legacy of the slave trade. Several readers made comments on the article and I picked two of the comments which had some salient points that deserve answers before I proceed. The first comment is from a Mr. V. Mweene and it reads as follows: “If blame was to be objectively apportioned and properly pinned between the white slave buyers and the African chiefs who sold their people, who is to blame more?” He goes on the say: “By extension, over the centuries only the ‘product’ has changed from ‘African Human Merchandise’ to ‘African Resources’ in modern times and could there be modern equivalents of “African Chiefs” of the past in the way we Africans trade with the bazungus?” The second comment is from a Mr. Jonathan Soko who is asking for a similar article on the slave trade in Zambia. “We have the […]
