Recently added articles from New African:
The father of African emancipation
Oct 01, 2009; ... 23 September 2009 marked exactly 50 years since the death of the man who quietly worked behind the scenes for the total liberation of Africa: Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, otherwise known as George Padmore. Here, Cameron Duodu, who knew him, pays tribute to the man widely known in his day as "the ...
Slavery reparations are a must
Oct 01, 2009; ... Nora Wittmann lays the legal foundation for reparations for slavery, and argues that the "legality" or illegality of transatlantic slavery must be assessed in the light of the "real" international law of the time, and not the one that Europeans have been able to put in place as a consequence of ...
Time to look back
Oct 01, 2009; ... Once again another October is here, which means another "Black History Month UK" has arrived. Interestingly, this year marks the 10th anniversary of both UNESCO's declaration of 23 August as the "International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition", and New Africans ...
Seychelles: A history of slavery
Oct 01, 2009; ... Once upon a time the shores of the Seychelles offered shelter to hundreds of liberated African slaves. Tony Mathiot recently visited one such spot, the "Mission Ruins", the sanctuary where the children of freed African slaves stayed. IT IS AN OLD PLACE OF MOURNFUL beauty and sweet, ...
Healing the wounds of slavery
Oct 01, 2009; ... A large crowd of historians, diplomats, community leaders and dignitaries from all walks of life, descended on the city of Liverpool in the UK from 21-23 August to commemorate Slavery Day and remember the suffering endured by enslaved Africans, while celebrating the resistance of others to ...