The events of the past 350 years or has it been more require no extended recitation from Us. The period of colonialism into which Africans were plunged culminated with this continents fettered and bound, with its once proud and free peoples reduced to humiliation and slavery; with Africas terrain cross-batched and checker-boarded by artificial and arbitrary boundaries. Many during those bitter years, were overwhelmed in battle, and those who escaped conquest did so at the cost of desperate resistance and bloodshed. Others were sold into bondage as the price extracted by these colonialists (whose descendents benefit to this day) for the protection which they extended and the possession of which they disposed. Africa was and is still a physical resource to be exploited. Africans were chattels to be purchased bodily or at the very least peoples were reduced to vassalage. Africa is the market for the produce of other nations and the source of the raw materials with which their factories were fed.
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