African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists ... The last country to abolish slavery was the African state of Mauritania, where a 1981 presidential decree ...

Legal scholar Daniel Ogunniyi, who has done research in this field, speaks about the intersection of climate change and modern slavery in Africa. What is modern slavery and how serious is it in ...

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday described the decade-long abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State, Nigeria, as an example of modern ... “slave markets thrive all over the ...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denounced the persistence of modern-day slavery in Africa and beyond.He made these remarks during his keynote address at the United Nations General Assembly, ...

It began with the African slaves who were kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic during the Middle Passage. Slaves from different countries, tribes and cultures used singing as a way to ...

Mauritius, Lesotho and Botswana have the lowest prevalence of modern slavery in Africa. Research suggests that of these, some 3.8 million people toil in forced labour in Africa.