This is common knowledge in America. However I don't agree with Africans choosing slavery. I think it was a mutual agree that went sideways quickly. Whites also never said they went to Africa for cheap labor, they went for gold (wealth), power, and to spread Christianity those were the reasons for Europeans exploration. You're also correct though Europeans were the first to abolish slavery. Sadly Africa had endured alot and has been enslaved multiple time by different races and its horrific and I wish those atrocities never had taken place.
I wonder how much he has been paid to say crap! Anyway we have seller out everywhere. In African history there is no evil, so the moment he just mentioned that I realized something is wrong somewhere with this man.
@@SIGSAUER_P320 Stop it. Slavery is centuries old. The Oluwo became a king, only 5 years ago. He didn't write History books or compile an archive. Whatever he's saying is not first hand information, he was told or read it. If you trawl History, yoruba royals especially, traded themselves directly as slaves in that long established institution. Queen Victoria's Aina was a princess. Candido Galvao of Brazil was an Oyo prince. All the way across South Eastern Nigeria, lie countless examples. This Oluwo may have apologised for slavery recently. But that he's the first to state facts is untrue. Other things like Madam Tinubu's fight to continue slave trade and even the created reservation known as Liberia (Freetown), make the telling of slavery obvious. Please stop with your arguments if you aren't helping propagate the facts. Oluwo and yourself make it sound as if it's a recent revelation or discovery. It is not. What you can do instead of seeking personal limelight, is to present History books and records for those who don't know. Not parse it like personal heroism.
@@unaninanine3743 Is the Oluwo right? Africans offered slaves to the Europeans first because they had nothing else to sell or did the Europeans came looking for slaves?
Finally, Iwo's worst kept secret has emerged onto the mainstream. He's our biggest embarrassment in the West, this drug addict king that calls himself the Emir of Yorùbáland.
He is known for saying a lot of silly things but on this issue of the modalities of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, he is correct. Slavery was pre-colonial, a mercantile venture. It required the cooperation and active participation of African polities (usually bigger and coastal) to supply the human beings to the European merchants. Africans sold Africans. And even when Anglo abolitionism was trying to end the trade, it was the same African polities (e.g Lagos and Bonny for Nigeria's case) that fought for the right to sell slaves. That's why Portuguese ships were still getting loaded in the late 1800s. Even with all the pressure put on by the Royal Navy.
@@Lenner34 i thought in African societies it was more of like indentured servant/slaves..compared to how brutal the Euro slavery was..correct me if im wrong
