To console the family of Mungo Park, the British Government alleged that he discovered the Niger River. He was a Surgeon, an explorer, an adventurer but he was also a slave master. He wrote a book about his first voyages but was not alive to tell about the second. Heavily armed with guns and slaves, he met his doom in the hands of Bussa Warriors (in the present-day Niger State of Nigeria). They overpowered Mungo Park's army and he drowned in the River known today as Niger. Nevertheless, one of his slaves, named Amadi, told the story of Mungo Park.

MUNGO PARK AND AFRICAN SLAVES

It is a big shame that some Africans think that our ancestors were evil. It is a big shame. Mungo Park thought otherwise. Reading about Mungo Park filled me with emotions and inspiration. Although history condensed this truth, Mungo Park was a Slave Merchant but there is something different about him. While writing about his encounter with African slaves, Mungo Park wrote:

'Whatever difference there is between the negro and European, in the conformation of the nose, and the colour of the skin, there is none in the genuine sympathies and characteristic feelings of our common nature.'

Mungo Park saw our African ancestors not like savages but like humans. To break his words, he said:

'There is no difference in the genuine sympathies and characteristic feelings of our common nature.'
(The 'Our' in the sentense stands for African ancestors and European ancestors)
To Mungo, that met the Africans in 1779, he found no uncommon evil in them.

The truth is that our ancestors feared the white men. In fact, when Mungo Park encountered a group of slaves when travelling through Mandinka country Mali. He documented this about those slaves...
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Mungo Park couldn't have discovered the river in 1779, because Malian fisherman, Gambian fishermen, etc had been fishing along the river thousands of years before he was born. He discovered the river for British people not for Africans.

It is interesting to note that Africans were asking him what they used the slaves for. When you try to enlighten our people that our ancestors had no idea what the whole slave trade was about, they'll prefer to believe that our ancestors originated slavery. Europeans had been enslaving themselves in Europe for thousands of years. They simply moved their trade to Africa and other parts of the world upon the end of feudalism in Europe.

who discovered Mungo Park

who discovered Mungo Park??