Africa Listen Podcast

"An injury to one, an injury to all" is the predominant philosophy that informed Africa's continent. In our coexisting community, a child is being raised by the parents and by the people. And despite all cultural differences among the people, the mastery of the water in West Africa as everywhere else was an important development for early man's knowledge of the rest of his environment. The many rivers, the incredible lagoons,  and even the stormy ocean offered livelihood and communication.

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade took a passage through PANYA —  [ Fernando  Po’ (The Spanish plantation island) now known as "Malabo" the capital of  Equatorial Guinea ] — into the Bight of Biafra (Eastern Nigeria) in search of labour, as the shortage and coercive recruitment of labour was particularly intense on the Spanish plantation island. [ The so-called  "Labour Question" A well-known obsession pervading the archives of  Africa was posed by colonial rulers as a calculated question of scarcity  and coercion ]
However, the labour recruitments were said to be  successfully constructed by the aligned "Mediators” of kinship,  ethnicity, money, law, commodities, and administration."

In this episode, we interviewed a historian in Calabar who gave anecdotes on; 

• Domestic slavery; a medium of exchange where families willingly gave out their sons to another for a given period to repay specific debts.
• Why the "Union Jack" took over Fernando Po' from preceding colonial authorities.
• Why our skin color should be our center point for self-mastery, tracing our heritage, and understanding our uniqueness.
• The idea of Christianity and how it was able to gain popularity over many African traditions and beliefs.
• The Nsibidi; A developing system of writing and communication created by the "Ekpe" society in Pre-1940's

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