Islam’s Black Slaves
by Ronald Segal
On the other side of Africa, the East Coast, a millennia-long slave trade drew millions of Africans into the Islamic world and another slave system.
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“Ronald was one of the great intellectual campaigners of the anti-apartheid movement. He was born in the 30s in Cape Town and was involved with people like Oliver Tambo and the ANC. He became a great writer about South Africa’s history and returned to South African in 1994 having been invited by the ANC to help with the first free elections. He also founded the Penguin African Library. When I was a small boy those little brown Penguin books about Africa were really important to me.” Read more...
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