Why Are Many Africans Denying The History of Some Africans Selling Africans Into Slavery?

Saturday, 27 April 2024

By: TB Obwoge

I was blocked by a TikTok user during his live stream, I was having a conversation with someone about the topic he posted. In his topic photo, which I don't have because I was blocked, he was saying Africa and Africans deserve reparations for the slave trade.

I would like to point out that not one African country is giving visa free entry to Black Americans, whom are the descendants of enslaved Africans. Not one country is even trying to provide this when you walk into their embassy's.

They are making hundreds of thousands of dollars off the tourism industry visas alone. Tanzania even charges Americans $100 USD and others pay $50 USD (not sure if the prices have gone up but Americans pay more than other nationals).

Ghana immigration officers have been scamming and defrauding Black Americans with their wicket ways of taking extra money from us, when we go for a residency permits.

One office c17 in Ghana's immigration building is filled with immigration officers that are hooking Black Americans to Ghanaians to sign fake marriage certificates.

Either that or they want you to have more than $100,000 USD in your bank account, less the bribery fees that some officers are requesting.

I mentioned Ghana not only because I have first hand experience with the scamming nation but because one of the people speaking on this live was Ghanaian. He was going in on reparations for Ghana and for their stolen artifacts.

I found him amusing for several reasons, when the Queen of England died the Asantehene, the leader of the Asante Kingdom in Ghana, shared a video of the kingdom giving gold and other items to Queen Elizabeth. In a video from 1961, there is proof and UTV News Ghana posted this video when the Queen died.

Many Ghanaians in the comments on UTV News Ghana's page, asked, "well since she's died can we have our gold back?"

I am not denying the many countries have stolen from Africa, however the favoring and desire to be liked by white people is still alive and well all over Africa. Africans were freely giving items away, this is the same for trading their own people for items.

This isn't an insult, why is the truth to so many Africans look at truth as an insult?

The current day Asantehene, Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, is "friends" with King Charles, he proudly showed off his trip to the coronation of Charles. He rented out a private jet to take him there, not even concerned that this was also his birthday weekend.

Africans had ancestors that were just as guilty and evil as white westerners, there are even traditions and customs still being practiced by Africans that are barbaric and inhumane to this day in 2024. Here you can read about some of them.

Also, Ghana's recent child marriage is another example of a disgusting and inhumane act that is still taking place and this man is being accused by someone in his area of having sex with several children.

PRESIDENT OF UGANDA OFFICIALLY APOLOGIZES FOR ROLE IN SLAVE TRADE

“We come in humility and brokenness to repent for the sins of leaders in Africa,” Museveni said. “And in particular, the sin of selling our own brothers and sisters into slavery. This grave sin brought untold pain and misery towards millions of people of African descent, and judgement to the African people who remain on the continent. ”

He continued, “If it not were not for the part that our African kings and chiefs played in the slave trade, this evil trade could not have survived. Therefore, on behalf of all the African leaders, past and present, all of them, I acknowledge that part we played in this tragedy. And today, we ask for forgiveness.”

The video, released on the news channel’s YouTube, has amassed over 40,000 views since its posting on July 9.

This official recognition from Uganda of its direct involvement in the slave trade, in addition to other nations who have done so already, may prompt other African nations with a similar history to formally apologize as well, with the acknowledgment being a step in the right direction to further relief for the Black diaspora.

Source Black Enterprise

The person who was hosting this TikTok Live is from East Africa, not sure if he's from Kenya, Tanzania or Uganda by the way. He knows perfectly well that when I typed about what Museveni said, that is when he blocked me from his TikTok Live.

Speaking on Kenyans, they were brutalized by the British in ways that the Black American slaves were treated. Kenyans were not even free to move around their own country, they needed to obtain permission from the British, even having a passport like travel book.

There was once talk of a several billion USD lawsuit against the British but I have no idea what happened with that as to date. I do know that many Kenyans welcomed King Charles to Kenya, with those on social media claiming he doesn't owe us anything.

While others expected an apology, I don't even know why I was expecting one as well but alas he said nothing in the way of what he should have.

During a visit to Tanzania, the president of Germany was forthcoming with his apology. I guess some people were hopeful for the same from King Charles.

The Africans in the TikTok Live comments though, called me several different names, to which I wasn't surprised however the sheer amount of Africans that don't believe other Africans sold their, (traded) their own into slavery is wild!

Its amazing how stupid you can be in this day and age of information and technology. Imagine using TikTok but being unable to use free YouTube to watch documentaries on your own history.

Here in a video Ghanaians are talking about trading Africans to the Europeans, taking humans from Northern Ghana instead of other areas. Northern Ghanaians show true connections with Burkina Faso, some Mali and even Togo and Niger. Why would a Ghanaian, who comes from this history of slave chambers and castles be sitting his ass on TikTok talking about being owed reparations?

This is the most confusing shit ever, it makes me so angry that these people think that they are owed money on top of the money and items that their ancestors were already given. This took place for over 150 years, in West Africa, Ghana particularly, why are they now claiming to be owed anything?

The fact that Ghanaian and many other Africans are being so hateful in other parts of the world when it comes to Black Americans, alone is pure insanity. To me this hatred is worse than an act of terrorism, not to mention Ghanaians murdering Americans in Ghana, threatening them and defrauding them.

Here you can also read about Ghanaians claiming Black Americans are ruining Ghana.

Another thing I heard often in Ghana, (they think I'm white because of light skin), was that Black Americans walk around like they own Ghana. What the Hell does that even mean? Are people not supposed to walk around any way they want in a country they've immigrated to? The Lebanese, Chinese and white people in Ghana do it everyday, there was even some plaes that refused Black customers in Ghana.

In a Chats in the Stacks book talk, Professor Sandra Greene will present her new book Slave Owners of West Africa (Indiana University Press, May, 2017). Exploring the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition, Greene discovers the reasons why these individuals reacted to the demise of slavery as they did.

Her book emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities and desires to protect their economic and social status. Their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates had a significant impact on their actions.

Sandra E. Greene is the Stephen ’59 and Madeline ’60 Anbinder Professor of African History in the Department of History at Cornell University. Her research interests have ranged from the study of gender and ethnic relations in West Africa, to the role that religious beliefs, warfare, and the experience of slavery have played in the lives of individuals and communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ghana.

Source Cornell University

My point being there is too much information that documents the history of what some Africans did during the slave trade, why are so many Africans with access to social media, YouTube and all this information lying abou this history?

To me this seems just like those who say that the Jewish holocaust wasn't real or the deniers of the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi in 1994. Believe it or not they do exist and they are just as gross as the Africans that deny other Africans traded Africans into slavery.

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