Lagos — CHUKWUDI OBI writes that 200 years after the abolition of the slave trade, Africans and Nigerians are yet to reap the full dividend of freedom.
Before 1805, local kings and chiefs acted as middlemen to the foreign slave dealers in exchange for things like mirror, dry gin and other things.
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