I've never 'got'

In the film I posted, this questionable assertion that Africans enslaved Africans is examined, and it asserts that this is pretty much a fallacy. Where some evidence of this does accur, it is in the context of military threat where people are forced to enslave neighbour tribes in order to protect themselves, who were then double-crossed anyway.

But good post, thoughful stuff. I agree that the freedom and riches of the developed countries seem like a good deal, but isn't it worth remembering that the industrial revolution that spurred our development was funded and supported materially by the capture and appropriation of land, mineral and agricultural theft and enslavement? We benefit from that theft and holocaust every day. Reparation refers to the re-distribution of wealth. The reasons that, to you, an existence in Africa is less attractive may be the direct result of colonialism.