Dear Editor,
I welcome the comments of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo regarding Jamaica's former Prime Minister P J Patterson's letter to David Cameron regarding slavery. However, I think the former Nigerian president could have used the opportunity to apologise for West Africa's role in selling their own people to white slave traders, to be taken far away for unknown purposes.
Until West African states are honest and apologetic about their clear and obvious role in the slave trade, the former president's words ring hollow. One look at today's Nigeria will tell you that the African continent and Nigeria obviously sufferred by our absence.
Martha Brae
martha.brae@yahoo.com
Hollow words, Obasanjo
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I welcome the comments of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo regarding Jamaica's former Prime Minister P J Patterson's letter to David Cameron regarding slavery. However, I think the former Nigerian president could have used the opportunity to apologise for West Africa's role in selling their own people to white slave traders, to be taken far away for unknown purposes.
Until West African states are honest and apologetic about their clear and obvious role in the slave trade, the former president's words ring hollow. One look at today's Nigeria will tell you that the African continent and Nigeria obviously sufferred by our absence.
Martha Brae
martha.brae@yahoo.com
Hollow words, Obasanjo
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