By Ezekiel Ayoola
It is well-known history in the
continent of Africa that there was an evil practice called the slave
trade. This involved the moving of African slaves to other countries. It
has been estimated that about 500 million Africans were taken away as slaves.
And our forefathers did it.
Sometimes purely out of envy and as they were capturing and torturing these slaves, taking them away, the slaves were issuing curses on those who did it. The curses were on the heads of the whites buying them and those Africans selling them together with their children’s children.
Slaves were not allowed to wear clothes, they were humiliated, with stocks on their necks joined to each other. The sick ones were thrown into the sea and when they got to the plantations they padlocked their mouths. This evil befell fellow human beings only because somebody has sold them in exchange for a necklace, alcohol or a mirror.
