How the colonists used the Bible to justify slavery – Part 2
“We have been sent by this great God to ask you to leave your wicked ways and false Gods and turn to Him so that you may be saved when you die.” Things Fall Apart For those as curious as…
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Mwazulu Diyabanza – The real-life Erik Killmonger (sort of)
One of my favourite scenes in Black Panther was right at the beginning. Erik Killmonger is in an English museum looking at all of the African history locked up behind glass panels. He begins to talk to the museum’s curator…
Chief Nana Olomu – Africa’s 19th century millionaire
Who knew there were millionaires in Africa in the 19th century? Enter Chief Nana Olomu. Living large with an impressive fleet of 200 trade canoes, 100 war canoes, that’s right, a war canoe! And he had 20,000 men at his…
Half of a yellow sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Before reading this, I had little knowledge of the Nigerian civil war. I only understood the brutality and the number of innocent people who had suffered over dark period of the countries history. The book was written from the side…
Black Caesar
September 19th is officially ‘Talk like a Pirate Day’. Who comes up with this for real haha! I’m not going to talk like a pirate, however I will tell you about Black Caesar. The notorious pirate who terrorised the seven…
Slavery and The Royal Navy
“You are to use every means in your power to prevent a continuance of the traffic in slaves.” Commodore Sir George Ralph Collier Slavery was one of Britain’s biggest earners, and there were many opposers in the country who did…
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
“I fear for young people because you do not know how strong is the bond of kinship. You do not know what it is to speak with one voice” This book is a classic. There are so many superlatives that…
Empire – Niall Ferguson
The sun never sets on the British Empire.John Wilson, Christopher North” Upon landing in America, Sir Francis Wyatt said “Our first work is expulsion of the savages to gain free range of the country”. The British coexisted with the Natives…
The Apprenticeship Laws 1832
When is a slave not a slave? When they are considered an apprentice! Around the 1830s, Great Britain had finally heard the campaigners and sided with the abolitionists. The government passed the bill to abolish slavery. SUCCESS! Some Brits understood…