Tag Archive: slavery

A Trip Down Memory Lane

By Satish Sekar in Accra © Satish Sekar (September 25th 2017) The African Malaise Africans don’t know their history – worse they don’t want to. During the WAFU Cup of Nations I was in an area steeped in history. I…
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The End is Nigh

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 19th 2017) A Free Hand Baron William Grenville, succeeded William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister in 1806. Four years earlier he played an important in securing a temporary peace with Napoléon Bonaparte’s…
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Call to Arms

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 15th 2017) Boukman Men of Colour (Mulatto) leaders, Vincent Ogé and Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, had been martyred in February 1791, but rather than crush expectations of equality and political rights, it united blacks and…
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