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From: Denc 🗡
Quite right …. Malawi hails British Empire as ‘liberators’ who saved Africans from slavery Museum will raise awareness of ‘forgotten’ Arab trade that Britain sought to eradicate Across Africa, Britain has been called an oppressor and confronted with demands for slavery reparations. But one nation is celebrating the British Empire as a liberator. Malawi suffered from the brutality of Arab slavery, with its people captured by rival tribes and shipped to the Middle East, part of a 1,200-year-long traffic in human commodities that is often overshadowed by Europe’s transatlantic trade. The country wants to tell the world about this forgotten slave trade – and how Britain ran a determined campaign to end it. Malawi’s government is overseeing plans to build a museum dedicated to slavery, preserve mosques and markets linked to the trade, and have them inscribed as World Heritage sites to “send a message” internationally about this neglected chapter of history. Through its department of museums, Malawi will also celebrate the British Empire by conserving ruined forts built by colonial forces to protect Africans from marauding slavers. “Britain was not a coloniser it was a liberator,” said Moses Mkumpha, who is working on the government-backed project to preserve colonial buildings.

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Quite right …....[more]	Denc 🗡	17:57:46
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