Breh, the first slaves were sent to the colonies in the 1600s. The scramble for Africa didn't start until 200 years later when slavery was going out of fashion anyway. The European nations had 200 years to profit off of slavery before colonization and because they now needed to profit off of human capital on the Continent instead of in the New World, we're going to frame their fighting to end slavery on the Continent as something noble and not wholely self-serving?
No one looks good. However, I'd rather the black kingdoms look better.
Hollywood has portrayed white people and Europe as heroes and victors for years with all the blood on their hands.
It's a problem when it's Africans though? And the people pushing it are Black Americans.
I guess black people turning on black people is as African as palm oil, eh?
dude these people aren’t even lionized by the Africans that live there now, it’s considered a stain on their history, it’s consider a stain on any tribe or group that participated in slavery.
Why lionize them out of all the African stories you could tell, because some Jews want to monetize the black female viewer audience with a knockoff Black Panther with girl power?
Like before the cacs even latched on to this, I watched the trailer and said “they don’t know they were ruthless slave traders?”
My people killed slavers.
But it doesn’t surprised me, recently had to watch 15 minutes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and was like this show is basically a bunch of corny Hollywood women writers saying
“what if we made a world where you had to have a baby, and if you refuse they throw you in Guantanamo bay, so instead of being filled with tortured Arab men like it was in reality, it’s filled with pretty western women with attitude!”
Like I just think “nobody thought this was distasteful?” Hollywood is terrible I swear, they must be stopped.
You have to remember though that the Yoruba also had a whole ass Civil war. They had a fantastic empire. Their focus was not slavery. It was about trade, taxes and tribute. They were into expansionism and wanted to take over trade routes going towards the ocean and the inland trade routes. Their calvary was formidable, but the royal families, noble people and priests had a massive falling out and their Alaafins/Kings made power moves and some of them were very corrupt. Eventually Oyo collapsed under the weight of constant internal warfare but it was really advanced and it shows the potential that Nigeria has.
lol they were gonna get knocked over by the Fulani again regardless, history repeats.
Even now the Yoruba struggle with leaders that are more loyal to Islam than Oyo. But Islam pays well in Nigeria so I get it.
