RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Henry Louis Gates is Wrong aboutAfrican Involvement in the Slave Trade

Both the English and Spanish editions of the book are available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, etc.:

Mario Fenyo on the Third World: A Reader by Abdul Bangura (Aug 27, 2002)

Mario Fenyo on the Third World: A Reader (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Abdul Bangura (Author

-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Fenyo
Sent: Mar 20, 2013 10:20 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Cc: theai@earthlink.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Henry Louis Gates is Wrong aboutAfrican Involvement in the Slave Trade

Brother Bangura:

 

This message is intended for Einar Schlereth, who argues that Heinrich Barth was the only explorer of Africa who was not a racist. 

 

I must admit i am not familiar with Steve Kemper's biography of Barth but, on the other hand, Professor Schlereth does not seem to be familiar with my work on the Hungarian Emil Torday, who abandoned the racist European stereotypes within three months of his arrival in the "Belgian Congo", to become a friend and admirer of Africans.   My work has been published and  reprinted several times, for instance in Abdul Karim Bangura's Mario Fenyo:  A Reader.

 

peace !  mario

 

ps:   I do not have the precise reference, because someone has "borrowed" my only copy of the book.

 

 

Dr. Mario D. Fenyo

University Professor of American History

Department of History and Government

Bowie State University

Bowie, MD 20715

USA

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of Abdul Bangura
Sent: Wed 3/20/2013 9:29 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Henry Louis Gates is Wrong aboutAfrican Involvement in the Slave Trade

No one is disputing the fact that slavery existed in Africa, just like everywhere else in the world. The main point is that even the economic aspects were qualitatively different, and even more so the social, political, linguistic and psychological aspects. So read the "4 big volumes" again with a more critical eye! You may find that European/American slavery was the most inhumane!

----- Original Message -----

From: Einar Schlereth

To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Sent: 3/20/2013 8:41:55 AM

Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Henry Louis Gates is Wrong aboutAfrican Involvement in the Slave Trade

I just read the great biography by Steve Kemper (A Labyrinth of Kingdoms) of 'Heinrich Barth' - ,a German 'explorer' of the central African kingdoms like Bornu etc, and the only one of the bunch of explorers who was not a racist, but a great humanist  and revered still in Africa but hated in the West., His 4 big volumes are online to read at google books. Read it: African kings, had thoausands of slaves to work their fields and made big money by selling slaves to Arabs, Whities etc. Neverthelsse there were differences. It was mostly not a question of racism but of money. Slaves were often adopted ,and could inherit the slave owner etc  So they were 'just the same' as the Whities.
Einar Schlereth

http;//einarschlereth.blogspot.se


On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:53:02 AM UTC+1, Ikhide wrote:

"There are some fundamental facts. First, no African kingdom used slavery as its principal mode of production. Africa has produced no economies based on slavery. It was left to Europe to create a system of slavery where humans were chattel to be used as tools in the development of wealth. Secondly, in all massive enterprises where there are oppressors and the oppressed there will be collaborators. It is no secret that some of Afriica's best minds, Fanon, Memni, Karenga, have isolated incidents of collaboration among victims of oppression. Blacks were police officers in the white minority regime of South Africa but one cannot blame apartheid on black people. So when Gates claims that Africans were involved in the slave trade one can accept this, but what one cannot accept is that Africans were equally culpable for the slave trade. Nor should one blame the Judenrats (Jewish Councils) of Germany for Nazi atrocities although they often collaborated with the Germans. Indians collaborated with the British colonialists in India and some Chinese collaborated with the Japanese in occupied China, and while there is no excuse there is certainly explanation for collaboration."

- Molefi Kete Asante

http://www.asante.net/articles/44/where-is-the-white-professor-located/

Hmmm/ It is incorrect that "no African kingdom used slavery as its principal mode of production." That is silly hagiography. There are many ways to counter Bill Gates without minimizing the role of Africans in the transatlantic slave trade. Africans are just as culpable as those that came to take away our siblings. *cycles away slowly*

 

- Ikhide

 

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