Maafa:The Age of African-American Genocide
This has been a month of discovery for me. It's not that I didn't know anything about Black History (my history,) but I didn't know my Black History in such detail. Through some of the stories of great African Americans you feel their pain, their determination, their joy and sorry. It's kinds of like knowing the national anthem: you think you know the words until its Super Bowl Sunday and you have to sing it in front of 300 million people. In just researching this topic alone (Slave Trade,) I found some interesting tidbits that I wanted to explore further. Today, I am discovering more about the Transatlantic slave trade . Some even call it Maafa- the Swahili word for Holocaust or great disaster. Holocaust is from the Greek hólos meaning "whole" and kaustós meaning "burnt." Yes, there were slaves in Africa before Europeans showed up.They would sell criminals, war ca...