New research on Ilorin in Nigeria provides insights into regional socio-political developments prior to the 19th century.
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A grand new memorial park walks a fine line - between teaching about slavery and becoming a tourist trap.
Money cowries were used for thousands of years as currency across the Indo-Pacific world but introduced into Atlantic commercial networks relatively late.
The turn towards authoritarianism, xenophobia and racism in Western democracies makes it unlikely that former Western slave-trading nations will agree to reparations in the near future.
A historian says that critics get the past wrong.
Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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Curator, KwaZulu-Natal Museum
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Junior research fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow in Black Heritage, University of Cambridge
