Indoctrinating Our Children

Why did africans sell there own people?

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West Africa slavery still widespread - BBC

Human rights organisations say more than 40,000 people are still in slavery in Niger alone.

Most live in conditions little changed over centuries, forced to look after animals or domestic work such as cooking and cleaning without pay.

Born into an established slave caste, they inherit a status from their mothers that it is almost impossible to shake off.

Romana Cacchioli, Africa Programme Coordinator for Anti-Slavery International, says this form of slavery began centuries ago.

Hadijatou Mani was sold by her Berber, Tuareg family to a master from the Hausa community.

She says he bought her for the equivalent of about $500 (£315).

"My master has four wives. We, the slaves, were doing all the housework like cooking, fetching water and firewood and working on farms," she told the BBC.

"I was beaten so many times I would run to my family. Then, after a day or two, I would be brought back."

Ilguilas Weila, head of the local human rights group Timidria said his group had estimated that in 2002 about 8% of the population in six of Niger's eight regions were living in slavery.

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