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The mythical romance of the African and the African Diaspora

The mythical romance of the African and the African Diaspora Between Whiteman’s narrative of “you were sold by your fellow African tribesmen into slavery” and the African narrative of “you were captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids and proxy wars remotely controlled by the enslaver”. Whose narrative is authentic? your enslaver or the family member who you believe didn’t want you no more. This could be properly answered with the historical facts gathered by many African and European writers giving their narrative perspective to their experience and facts. Before we go deeper into historical facts, how are the descendants of the enslaver treating you now and how are the descendants of the Africans treating you now? My little journey around the world exposed me to the fact that Africans seem to know about the rest of the world but the rest of the world knows literally nothing about the African continent. Narrowing it to my melanated fellows, I found pressing quest...