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Prelude to m’zungu colonisation of Africa
"Veni, Vidi,"
Four Great Slave Trading Operations in Africa
Name Period Estimated Countries most Destination
numbers impacted
Trans-Saharan Early 7th > 1960s >3 million 13 modern day North Africa
countries,
particularly
Ethiopia, Mali,
Nigeria, Chad,
Trans-Atlantic 1500>1850 >12 million 34 modern day European colonies
countries, in America
particularly Angola,
Ghana, Nigeria, the
Congo
Indian Ocean 1650>1700 >1 million 15 countries, Middle East, India
particularly
Tanzania,
Mozambique,
Madagascar
Red Sea 1820>1880 >1.5 million 7 countries, Egypt and Arabian
particularly Ethiopia, peninsula
Sudan, Chad
Source : “A short history of the African Slave Trade” 47
by Alastair Boddy Evans
which draws from various works but in particular those of
Nathan Nunn, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University
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m’zungu exploration of Africa
" European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who explored and
settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century Portugal, especially under Henry the Navigator,
probed along the West African coast.
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Naval charts of 1339 show that the Canary Islands were already known to Europeans.
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