25th March every year is set aside for the remembrance of the victims of slavery, the world’s worst human rights abuse by Europeans and American on the African continent and black race, while also creating awareness on modern day racism and supremacy.
The transatlantic slave trade saw millions of Africans forcefully taken away from their homelands in dehumanizing conditions to America and Europe to work in agricultural farms under inhumane conditions, until the official abolition of the trade on 25th March 1807 by United Kingdom, and the resistance that followed by Africans.
Speaking on the essence of the day, the Anambra State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Dr Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, emphasized that modern slavery continues in different ways, adding that to engineer a better society, love must be entrenched by all, urging Nigerians and Africans to rise against neo-colonialism that is keeping the continent backward by inconsistent policies.
On his part, another media practitioner, Mr Okechukwu Anarado, noted that slavery was a negative trajectory in the history of African, adding that even though it’s now in the past, people must be aware to resist any form of modern day slavery.
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