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A historical review of slave trade in Africa

    African historiography has been considerably renewed during the past  three to four decades and despite the extreme diversity of internal sentiments pertaining to colonization , we still too often tend to generalize on just specific experience which is slave trade .            Colonization, an act of political and economic domination involving the control of a country and its people , it is also the action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of the area . Colonization not colonisation (biology) is a multifaceted term which could be economical, social , political and other associated term . Colonization of black nations stems from the need of the white man to meet its internal economic imbalance, satisfy increasing demand for colonial goods such as tobacco , rum and sugar , and ensure constant labour which is mostly unwillingly ensured by slaves .     Slave trades out of Africa represent one of t...