Beschreibung
This collection of essays delved into the controversial topic of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But by focusing on the African side of the triangular commerce it raised questions easily overlooked by the current scholarship on the subject. In turn have been analyzed in this book the memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the African participation in the trade, the gun-slave cycle theory, the African response to European commercial decisions and above all, the call for reparations. Without trying to be trendy, these are burning issues still bedeviling not only the learned community of historians but also the African Diaspora and the general public at large, seeking to understand how this tragic episode of Euro-African interface shaped their world.
Autorenporträt
I am currently a senior lecturer in African History at the University of Abomey-Calavi. After graduating, in 1989, from the Centre of West African Studies of the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, with a Ph.D degree in History, I was recruited by the University of Cape Coast, in Ghana, where I taught history from 1991 to 2000.
