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 Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:19 am Post subject: Remembering East African slave raids |
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Remembering East African slave raids
By Kevin Mwachiro
BBC News, Nairobi
Walter Mbotela is proud to live in the same area as his grandfather
Walter Mbotela recounts the tales of how his grandfather was captured as a slave by Arab traders and shipped away from his birthplace in Nyasaland with great emotion.
Mr Mbotela senior, along with other slaves, were driven away from their villages and loaded into ships destined for Zanzibar, East Africa's main slave market until 1873.
These captives were however lucky, as after they were purchased and in transit to work in plantations, their ship was intercepted by the British Royal Navy, which was patrolling the Indian Ocean slave routes to enforce the UK ban on the slave trade, adopted in 1807.
For close to 70 years after the abolition, the trade continued to flourish on the East African coast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6510675.stm |
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