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President Tinubu.
The strongest man in Africa!!!

Amir Igo9.
The prophet against Yeebhoes incursion into the south south.
Giving it to them hot hot

You can't mix politics and sports.

The world has turn upside down with this 666, satanist, new world order, Covid 19 peoples.

tinubu/ganguje ticket is a surebanker!
10 million votes from lagos, 4 million votes from kano, you are over the line!!!!

The 25th March was, as usual, commemorated as the day Britain officially abolished its Slave Trade in 1807. But how many recall that Arab slavers were the first, and last, in modern times to ship millions of Africans out of the continent as slaves? And that Arab slavers preferred more African women to men? We revisit our archives for this insightful reminder by George Pavlu.


Thus, “for the Islamic world,” Clarke continues, “Slavs provided the major source of slaves in the 250 or so years between the defeat at the battle of Poitiers in AD 732 that forced the consolidation of their dramatic conquests across North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, cutting back the flow of war captives, and the expansion of the im port of black Africans across the Sahara from around AD 1000.”

The trade in slaves ended when the Ottoman Turk s conquered the region in 1463. “The effective closure of the last major source of slaves on the European continent,” says Clarke, “thus co-incidentally took place at the same time as the Portuguese explorations of the West African coast which were to open up the second and most devastating route for the exploitation of Africans as slaves.”

Figures on the Arab slave trade in Africa are hard to come by, but the historian Paul Lovejoy estimates that some 9.85 million Africans were shipped out as slaves to Arabia and, in small numbers, to the Indian subcontinent. Lovejoy breaks his figures down as follows:

Between AD 650 and 1600, an average of 5,000 Africans were shipped out by the Arabs. This makes a rough total of 7.25 million.

Then, between 1600 and 1800, another 1.4 million Africans were shipped out by the Arabs. The 19th century represented the highest point of the Arabian trade where 12,000 Africans were shipped out every year. The total figure for the 19th century alone was 1.2 million slaves to Arabia.

The numbers game

Thus, in terms of numbers, Arabia’s 9.85 million is not far behind the conservative estimate of nearly 12 million African victims of the Atlantic slave trade. Some African historians, though, reject these figures on the grounds that they are too low. They suggest over 50 million Africans were shipped out during the Atlantic trade alone.

According to Lovejoy, another 4.1 million Africans were shipped across the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf and India. “This trade also, with the notable exception of some Portuguese involvement in the area of Mozambique, and of 18th and 19th century French exports to islands under their control in the Indian Ocean, was largely conducted by Muslims,” adds Duncan Clarke.

Through out the 19th century, the Omani Arab rulers of Zanzibar shipped hundreds of thousands of African slaves to work on clove plantations on the island. It was this trade that gave Europe and America so much satisfaction, after abolishing their own trade in African slaves, to highlight the wickedness of the Arab slavers who continued to enslave Africans well into the first decades of the 20th century. Even to this day, Arab slavers are still at work in Sudan and Mauritania, buying and selling black Africans.

David Livingstone, the British missionary/traveller/explorer was so upset by the way the Arabs treated their African slaves that he wrote back home in 1870:

“In less than I take to talk about it, these unfortunate creatures — 84 of them, wended their way into the village where we were. Some of them, the eldest, were women from 20 to 22 years of age, and there were youths from 18 to 19, but the large majority was made up of boys and girls from 7 years to 14 or 15 years of age.

“A more terrible scene than these men, women and children, I do not think I ever came across. To say that they were emaciated would not give you an idea of what human beings can undergo under certain circumstances. “Each of them had his neck in a large forked stick, weigh ing from 30 to 40 pounds, and five or six feet long, cut with a fork at the end of it where the branches of a tree spread out. “T he women were tethered with bark thongs, which are, of all things, the most cruel to be tied with. Of course they are soft and supple when first striped off the trees, but a few hours in the sun make them about as hard as the iron round packing-cases. The little children were fastened by thongs to their mothers. “As we passed along the path which these slaves had travelled, I was shown a spot in the bushes where a poor woman the day before, unable to keep on the march, and likely to hinder it, was cut down by the axe of one of these slave drivers. “We went on further and were shown a p lace where a child lay. It had been been recently born, and its mother was unable to carry it from debility and exhaustion; so the slave trader had taken this little infant by its feet and dashed its brains out against one of the trees and thrown it in there.”

Such was the brutality meted out to the Africans by the Arabs. Like the Atlantic trade, the Arabian trade’s “middle passage” was equally as horrible and terrifying. The “middle passage” describes the harrowing journey lasting several months from Africa’s west coast to the Americas during which millions of Africans, packed like sardines in the slave ships, died of thirst, hunger, rough seas, and sometimes from the sheer brutality inflicted by the European slavers.

In the Arabian trade, the trudge across the Sahara, in leg and neck chains, and as Livingstone describes above, necks in large forked sticks and hands tied with bark thongs, was particularly harsh on the African slaves.

Says Duncan Clarke: “The hardships of these long marches across the desert were considerable, and much later travellers reported that the routes were lined with the parched skeletons of those who succumbed to exhaustion and thirst along the way.”

The Arab slavers did not only march their African captives to Arabia, they also sometimes sold them to European slavers.

In modern times, the popular image of African slavery springs from the vision of a tormented male suffering under the lash of unceasing labour on some “New World” sugar plantation. Yet the real face of servitude finds its focus in the forced migration of millions of girls and young women across the Sahara and the Horn of Africa in to the institutions of Islamic concubinage.

Why they preferred women

While in the European “New W o r ld ”, the measure of a man’s stature was mapped out and calibrated on the physical dimensions of empire built upon the sinews of forced masculine labour, in the Islamic Orient wealth was a reflection of prestige, young girls the vessel of male h u b r is , th e mats of male pleasure ground, the malleable material to be shaped to the master’s will.

Thus, women slaves in the Arab world were often turned into concubines living in harems, and rarely as wives, their children becoming free. A large number of male slaves and young boys were castrated and turned into eunuchs who kept watch over the harems. Castration was a particularly brutal operation with a survival rate of only 10%.

“The combined effect of all these factors,” says Duncan Clarke, “was a steady demand for slaves throughout the Islamic world, which had cover story to be met from wars, raids or purchases along the borders with non-Islamic regions. Although some of these slaves came from Russia, the Balkans and central Asia, the continuing expansion of Islamic regimes in sub-Saharan Africa made black Africans, the major source.”

So invasive was the practice of slavery into the economic, political, demographic, cultural, social and religious life of Africa and persisted for so many centuries, that while

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The British meone very very close to Nnamdi Kanu, who happened to be one of his lawyers. They asked him to



Despite the successful capture of Nnamdi Kanu, it took



The Nigerian

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Are you saying it is Lawyer Ojiofor who sold supleme reader away?

How do you know your attackers are not the same policemen who caused the accident?

President Ori Kalu

Abba Kyari should catch all of them and lock them up and throw away the key.

Sorry ooo

Oolorun

Is this the development he can bring to Imo?
Cell phone and car?
No roads. No electric power station, no factory, no pipeborn water?

The judge may have ruled on the law as it is written.
File another case saying that this law is discriminatory, like the law that disenfranchises women in certain ethnic groups.

History555:
Stfu and face ur region and stop showing fake concern. How can someone who claimed has never been to the east, abuses lgbos regularly, says he can neva step foot in the east now be telling us he encountered esn in ihiala. Do lgbos look like fools to you. Face ur region. Busybody

That guy is one of the unknown gunmen.

Chidywhite:
My heart � is bleeding, this is my junior brother, the officer who was shot n killed today by unknown gun men. Killed in the line of duty. Mr Anselem Oguama of Umutu, Ibeme. Rest in peace.

Most likely he was shot by his NDLEA (fulani) colleagues.

A long time ago, there was this brother who live by our church.
So once we finish night vigil I go branch him house to complete work.

Wetin NDLEA dey do for road by 3 am?
Who send them out by that time?
How many are in the team?
Just two?
What were the other members of the team doing?
Is Abba Kyari silencing witnesses against him?

The names in the other post are Adesoji and Gabriel.
Who be Joseph again?

Are you covering up after robbing and killing the poor boys?

You are now rich

Polynek:
I no like stories, what I want to see is useless dead bodies

Na cultist update kill the 8 people in Aba cattle market.
Their senseless plan backfire.

Hndrrxxx:
We gon slide, wet your shyt up and make it home 'fore you hear a siren

Aaah!
Thank you, Sir.
To forgive is divine.
i know we are all hurting from the loss of Egbon.

Tambuwal is Tinubu's boy boy

awkabigboy and oyigboupdate are part of the unknown gunmen.
Sule Matthew may have survived the initial attack because he may have identified himself as non-igbo.
Now, after sparing him and taking him away with them, the unknown gunmen are stuck with how to release him without giving away their secret.

studentofTruth:
Babygirl if you know the kind of love we have for you, you don't try to get us worried. Please relax; everything will work out fine.

Babygirl, we love you.

IGBOSON1:
Saw his interview on AriseTV few days ago....the gentleman just oozed calmness, class and intelligence! I doubt if i’d have remained that calm when talking of the blatant injustice done to Geometric electricity coy by the last administration! Imagine bundling in his already ring-fenced and duly acquired Aba electricity generation and distribution network into the agreement signed with that Emeka Offors’ EEDC!

Now Aba can reach for the skies!

Wasn't Barth Nnaji the minister of power when nepa was privatized in the previous regime?

send one bullion van to him.
miyetti allah wan cash out

Did he shoot himself, pick up the bullet casing and put in waste basket?
Then lie down and put the bereta on his chest?

Awkabigboy:
Which day did it happen?

You want to know if it were an attack you carried out?

obynzo:
You think you are downright sneaky but again you cannot twist my words. You deliberately out of malice hid the fact that i told you that whoever did this actually used hit and run tactics. Which is definitely the wisest strategy to use because if they stay in the metropolis they would be found out.

Or they operate out of army and police barracks, and offices.

ArewaNorth:
I was in Owerri and Onitsha the very day KANU was taken to court, the streets were deserted due to sit at home order, it gave us easy ride through the places. I discussed all the surreptitious killing of Northern traders, the outrageous unlawful tax of N45k/trailer carrying cows and all sort of evil IPOB is perpetrating on Northern traders entering Onitsha. A cow business tycoon told me that not long a go, his cow trailer driver was shot dead by IPOB, the boy setting the cows in position on top was injured from bullet shot, and looted the cows. There are ridiculous hidden atrocities on Northerners economy in the East though some in numbers are relocating to Asaba. Many bad things are happening in that side and has the full backing of average fools in the zones.
I told them that they need to leave the places u are not needed.
Many people are undermining police and DSS but they're fully aware of everything we do including those we do on our phones but ethno-religiouns reasons aren't favouring their operations. People are always there spoiling their names. I may not be them but I'm adequately informed abt Nigeria. I can go to not less than 15 states across 9ja in a week when the need arises!

You are one of the killers.
You will soon be brought to justice.

Abba kyari next for drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping, armed robbery

Poor olosho