Age of Remembrance: until recently, it seemed beyond belief that so many millions of Africans could have vanished in the Atlantic Ocean and on the plantations in the Americas, with no response. Were their deaths meaningless? Why were we so forgetful in remembering them?

New African › Nbr. 2009, January 2009

Author: Wambu, Onyekachi

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Age of Remembrance: until recently, it seemed beyond belief that so many millions of Africans could have vanished in the Atlantic Ocean and on the plantations in the Americas, with no response. Were their deaths meaningless? Why were we so forgetful in remembering them?

On 18 June, the US Senate apologised "to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Cr...

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