₦airaland Forum

Lifestone:
Probably you need to go and read your history books again.
Wars were fought to capture slaves, raids, children separated from their parents, a whole family captured and sold into slavery. Human were sold in exchange for drinks, mirror, salt weapons etc.
Pay a visit to Gore Island, Senegal and visit the Gate of no return and you will better appreciate the evil of slavery.
So stop commenting on what you little or nothing about

He is right and u are also right....the fact is that Africans sold slaves within themselves...then the European landed and also started buying from them .... slave trade has been in existence since the bible ...maybe Egypt should pay reparations to Israel for enslaving them too ... Africans as well should also pay reparations amongst themselves for involvement in slave trade

SmartPolician:
Growing up, I learnt from different sources that Nigerians sold to slavery were those whose parents or local communities considered useless, stubborn, disrespectful or problematic. If that is true, why are Black Africans still playing the victim card for intentionally selling off their own people?

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It is true that there were buyers and sellers. It is also true that slavery has existed throughout human history.

However the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade was peculiar in its barbarity and cruelty in terms of the treatment of slaves from the moment they were taken away. This, I believe, is what grounds the wellspring of disgust against it.

Secondly note that slavery in Africa before the advent of the white man was a complex matter of societal rules and culture. Slavery meant different things, in many cases it was mere servitude. In other cases it was akin to a prison sentence for crimes. However at no time was it practiced on the industrial scale that the Trans Atlantic trade became before the advent of the white man.

You need to visit the slave forts and castles in Ghana today to get a better picture.

OLAADEGBU:
Reacting to the development, Badenoch wrote, “Russia, China and Iran vote with others to demand trillions in reparations from UK taxpayers…and the Labour government abstain!”

Two things here:

1) Keir Starmer refusing to vote against the resolution means he has a bit of a conscience and acknowledges Britain played a major role in the slave trade era.

2) The most important question I want to ask: If not for the slave trade and exposure of our African ancestors to modernization won't Africa have been more backward than it is today?

We don't need no compensation, what ever form the compensation might be, our present leaders will embezzle it and use it to enslave us the more , the are worst than the slave masters

DataDoc:
Two things here:

1) Keir Starmer refusing to vote against the resolution means he has a bit of a conscience and acknowledges Britain played a major role in the slave trade era.

2) The most important question I want to ask: If not for the slave trade and exposure of our African ancestors to modernization won't Africa have been more backward than it is today?

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Not at all, Africans had already been interacting with the rest of the world and so it was just a matter of time.

The civilization also in places like Benin in Nigeria, Timbuktu, Ethiopia, and many many other places was telling.

Mere interaction with the rest of the world which geography had placed some barriers on would have opened things up gradually all the same.

Silly woman! Why is she speaking ill against her masters?

SmartPolician:
Growing up, I learnt from different sources that Nigerians sold to slavery were those whose parents or local communities considered useless, stubborn, disrespectful or problematic. If that is true, why are Black Africans still playing the victim card for intentionally selling off their own people?

Unfortunately, you are right, and let's even add that internal slavery was a thing in Africa. Africans sold each other slaves, even went on slave raids, and even sold them slaves. And not just Africans, almost for the entirety of mankind's history, slavery was the accepted normal. EVERYONE Kept slaves. It was only from around the 16th century (and even probably earlier among European nations ) that the concept of slavery was questioned.

Even slavery as punishment for violating some tenets of some religion was also common.

Which is why I don't understand why the focus on just the transatlantic slave trade. It sounds less a quest for justice, and more of a quest for more money/financial shakedown...maybe even a distraction from bad governance.

ElSudani:
She's Yoruba when it is convenient for you other times she doesn't want anything to do with Yoruba.
Why don't you leave tribalism alone for a moment and see the overall importance or lack of it of what is being discussed?

Don't mind him. Go and find the NL thread where it was reported Tinubu snubbed Badenoch on his recent trip to the UK.

See if you will not find that poster you quoted amongst many queuing behind Badenoch to say it was her who ignored Tinubu and his 'worthless' Nigeria and not the other way round.

Badenoch is "Yorubas gift to Nigeria" on this thread and a "great leader" when she is denigrating and insulting Nigeria.

It is obvious entrenched and irredeemable triblism/bigotry has destroyed the minds of so many Nigerians.

DeepSight:
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Not at all, Africans had already been interacting with the rest of the world and so it was just a matter of time.

The civilization also in places like Benin in Nigeria, Timbuktu, Ethiopia, and many many other places was telling.

Mere interaction with the rest of the world which geography had placed some barriers on would have opened things up gradually all the same.

Well-said and good response.

cdqyehyeh:
She was right,
The British had to force all European countries to abolish slave trade, they were movement in the UK that help does this. I mean they had to force other countries into abolishing it

You post is nonsensical.
This same issue was discussed a few years ago and the screenshot of my post is the factual response

cdqyehyeh:
She was right,
The British had to force all European countries to abolish slave trade, they were movement in the UK that help does this. I mean they had to force other countries into abolishing it

She isn't right.

The British ended slavery because they had a mechanical advantage against their competition having looted so much wealth.

Furthermore, when they ended slavery they compensated former slave owners but not the former slaves. That is insanity and a sign that they did not understand the moral or long standing issues that their evil had caused.

kingthreat:
Slavery was a business that the elites in those days benefited from. It was like the oil money that the kings used to marry more wives. If not for the West who eventually decided to end the madness, we might have had baby factories in Africa.
I am not shielding the West either for slave trade as they indulged in the evil business. The main victims of slavery were the slaves who were commodity in the eyes of the buyers and sellers. Thank God for civilization.

unfortunately, those who were captured by the whites and forced into slavery are more than those who were sold by their fellow black. The whites fought against those who stood on their way of slavery business. Today, the same whites have held strongly on their black colonies indirectly, using divide and rule strategies.

SadiqBabaSani:
YORUBA'S best gift to Nigeria

Tribalism is your watchword.

The British, Portuguese, Dutch were all trade merchants.

I think compensation should come from the kings and obas and emirs and local chiefs that sold their fellow blacks to slavery.

insidelife22:
The whites will be laughing and rolling on the floor behind the scenes.
She is always trying to play to the gallery
Yoruba efulefu

So she is supposed to vote for them to pay you for your parents selling your siblings to the Brit’s for a pair of slippers?


Come on man!

Image123:
Even me i vote against compensation, especially monetary. It will be largely embezzled. Cunning man wants to collect billions of pounds and dollars for another person's suffering hundred years ago. Na you go first slave abi? Imagine Israel waiting for slave money from Egypt instead of going ahead with their lives and development. Na only black man be slave before? Who is going to pay for the worse than slave trade treatment of many workers around the world today, especially in Africa and Asia?
Abeg, leave sentiments.

The reparation is not necessarily about money.

Go and back and read the article. The USA acknowledged the wrongs done, but chose to vote against reparation at this time. That is obviously commonsense...they asked a question about who stands to benefit from the reparation. Secondly, black Evangelical Christians support for Israel and the USA is not based on material things but on the spiritual. If you don't get, forget about it.

wonder233:
Two ironies:
The first is that a white country cleverly propped up a black person to argue against the motion regarding slavery. So, its just like then in the actual slave era where the very loyal black slave vigorously defends the white slave master.

The second irony is that Isreal and USA voted against.
But many evangelical Christians in black nations are so obsessed in their support of these two, even when they regards blacks as filthy.
Is it a case of slave worship??

This woman forgets she has 100% African DNA 😂 Her ancestors might even be actively involved in the trade.

The Arab slave trade of Africans spanned a period of over 1,300 years, they sold and bought our ancestors like goats 🐐 in mammy market, there is no greater evil than that, they starved this continent of more than 50 percent of our agile working population thereby slowing our progress and development on all indices, human, economic, social, political, scientific, military 🪖 and health.

Why is anty kemi not talking about that

Badenoch = UK’s Obi from Temu

This Yoruba woman again.

jmoore:
A question was asked and no answer. Who will be the beneficiaries? Government or families whose children were sold to slavery.

Who will pay? Business involves seller and buyer. Africans sold their people and white people bought it. So the buyer and seller should pay if the motion will ever become a reality.


Corrupt black african presidents salivating to loot the trillions will wait for 1 trillion light years cos that ain't gonna happen. No compensation will be paid.

Europeans encouraged African warriors to attack weak villages or community just for the getting of captives of war that Will eventually sold into slavery through the trans Atlantic slave trade. American and European slave merchants were deeply involved in it.

SmartPolician:
Growing up, I learnt from different sources that Nigerians sold to slavery were those whose parents or local communities considered useless, stubborn, disrespectful or problematic. If that is true, why are Black Africans still playing the victim card for intentionally selling off their own people?

From your comment you must be a Christian because you people are the major people that sees nothing wrong with slavery to the extent that your Bible even never speak against it .

I’ll deactivate if you hit your chests and prove me otherwise.

Hope you understand what she is saying and what she meant?

jmoore:
So your ancestors that sold the slaves to white men were not part of the crime?

So ancestors sold and ancestors bought , why then embracing the one that bought and blaming the one that sold only ?

Mention one ancestor that pick a slave enter sheep go to Europe or America and sell ?

Why did they cross over to buy ?
The crossing over to buy alone should’ve given you fair understanding of the whole situation.

Let me help you with that. How did ancestors contacted them ?

alobright17:
From your comment you must be a Christian because you people are the major people that sees nothing wrong with slavery to the extent that your Bible even never speak against it .

I’ll deactivate if you hit your chests and prove me otherwise.

How does this nonsense answer the question I asked?

She.. most Africans sold their children, wives, brothers . Till now they are still selling.