I am astonished with news that black foreigners were being attacked in Libya, because Col. Muammar Gadaffi was using mercenaries from Mali and Kenya to fight protesters in his country.
When i heard this, i asked myself if this was true or a way of some hooligans Muslims who dislikes black people and were taking advantage
If you go back to slave history, you will discover the hatred that some Muslims have against the blacks. The history tell of how Arabs merchants used to come to Africa and capture natives for sale
The African American community in USA and other western countries are the fruits of our fore father who were captured by Arabs and sold as slaves. It is said that the trade caused almost 120 million Africans to be taken as captives and sold,of this number 80% died on the way and most of them were thrown in the red sea, let their soul rest in peace.
The Arab Slave Trade is the longest trade ever yet its least discussed . It begins in the 7Th century AD as Arabs and other Asians merchants came into North and Eastern Africa under the banner of Islam and business, either converting the African willful or by force. In the beginning there was some respect between the Blacks and the more Caucasian-Semitic Arabs.
Mihdja and Bilal are the first two black men known to have converted to Muslims, that was way back in the 7Th century." Dhu'l-Nun al-Misri, born in Upper Egypt near Sudan, is regarded as the founder of Sufism. Today Sufism's stronghold is in Southern Egypt and Sudan. Islamic prosperity was based on Blacks as well as Arabic genius.
But when you look at what happened after that, you realise a big number of Arabs were just taking blacks for granted. The Arab world slaved over 28 millions black Africans. Today you cannot find a black person in some of these countries which we all know were the biggest market where our brothers and sisters were sold. Where did they go,or what happened to them?.
Due to infighting among the native African, the Arabs merchants took advantage and promised the tribal chiefs of ammunition's in exchange of black men and ladies captured during the battles.
Due to greedy African chiefs' and village elders millions of black men and women were sold and others exchanged with food and arms. Million and millions were captured and sold to Arab merchants who gave tribal leaders food, guns and bullets for fighting. That's why every time i hear of certain politician been installed as tribal spokesman or leader of his tribe, i feel we are still far behind and we need to look back and see what those type of leaders did to our brothers and sisters.
When USA government under the noble leadership of Abraham Lincoln outlawed the slave trade, and all slaves were freed, England used its naval ships to monitor sea water and ships that were being used to transport slaves across the world. This was a good step towards human equality no matter the colour, but amazingly till now we have countries that still enslave blacks, Mauritius and Sudan being some of them.
In Kenya we have our young men and women who travel to middle East for green pastures, but end up being enslaved and killed. There are stories said of how these young Kenyans, men and ladies have their travelling documents confiscated immediately they arrive in their host countries.
The work is said to start as early as 3am in the morning and ends as late as 11.00pm.
This our brothers and sisters are some times thrown from high rise building or beaten till they are dead. There is this lady from Mombasa who went to work in Beirut for a family she had met in this wonderful Kenyan coast town. When she reached there, the lady of the house took away all her personal belongings and documents. After two weeks, the lady of the house would order her two sons to sleep with her, this went on for some time before she decided to take a stand like Rose Park and run away to the street where she was arrested and locked up by police.
Although she stayed in police cell for some time, she says it was better than been at the mercy of her employer.
To date there are countries still taking black men and women as slaves,Sudan is one such country that rumours has it that slavery is still very much alive.
So the blacks of Libya are just being victims of circumstances and not what is being said, mercenaries, since when did we have mercenaries in Kenya, why only Kenya, Mali and Gabon were mentioned as where the mercenaries came from? I hope this is not a calculated move to destabilize this countries the Libya way.
Most Kenyans still remember Col. Gadaffi when he was said to be helping young Kenyans to fight Moi regime.The revolution should be welcomed but should not be pushed down throats of young Africans in pretence of good governance.
Its good to have leadership change after sometime, but it should be done in an orderly manner.
We need peace for our children for so many years to come.
Adios .
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