Thursday, June 29, 2006
Overlooked
Although the featured post link is in French, the Global Voices synopsis in English is sufficient to generate some interesting discussion on the history and impact of the customary practice of slavery on the African continent. The fact that it was an internal institution independent of and preceding the slave-trading managed from the Arabian peninsula--and later the Algarve and Rhode Island--is a factor discussed alongside the waves of colonialism and disease that plague these resource rich peoples today.
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/06/28/why-no-mention-of-slavery-in-african-and-haitian-fiction/
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/06/28/why-no-mention-of-slavery-in-african-and-haitian-fiction/
