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"An injury to one, an injury to all" is the predominant philosophy that informed Africa's continent. In our coexisting community, a child is being raised by the parents and by the people. And despite all cultural differences among the people, the mastery of the water in West Africa as everywhere else was an important development for early man's knowledge of the rest of his environment. The many rivers, the incredible lagoons, and even the stormy ocean offered livelihood and communication.
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade took a passage through PANYA — [ Fernando Po’ (The Spanish plantation island) now known as "Malabo" the capital of Equatorial Guinea ] — into the Bight of Biafra (Eastern Nigeria) in search of labour, as the shortage and coercive recruitment of labour was particularly intense on the Spanish plantation island. [ The so-called "Labour Question" A well-known obsession pervading the archives of Africa was posed by colonial rulers as a calculated question of scarcity and coercion ]
However, the labour recruitments were said to be successfully constructed by the aligned "Mediators” of kinship, ethnicity, money, law, commodities, and administration."
In this episode, we interviewed a historian in Calabar who gave anecdotes on;
Sources:
The Canoe in West African History
Clandestine Recruitment Networks in the Bight of Biafra
Other useful resources;
Ụ́kpụ́rụ́
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"An injury to one, an injury to all" is the predominant philosophy that informed Africa's continent. In our coexisting community, a child is being raised by the parents and by the people. And despite all cultural differences among the people, the mastery of the water in West Africa as everywhere else was an important development for early man's knowledge of the rest of his environment. The many rivers, the incredible lagoons, and even the stormy ocean offered livelihood and communication.
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade took a passage through PANYA — [ Fernando Po’ (The Spanish plantation island) now known as "Malabo" the capital of Equatorial Guinea ] — into the Bight of Biafra (Eastern Nigeria) in search of labour, as the shortage and coercive recruitment of labour was particularly intense on the Spanish plantation island. [ The so-called "Labour Question" A well-known obsession pervading the archives of Africa was posed by colonial rulers as a calculated question of scarcity and coercion ]
However, the labour recruitments were said to be successfully constructed by the aligned "Mediators” of kinship, ethnicity, money, law, commodities, and administration."
In this episode, we interviewed a historian in Calabar who gave anecdotes on;
Sources:
The Canoe in West African History
Clandestine Recruitment Networks in the Bight of Biafra
Other useful resources;
Ụ́kpụ́rụ́