International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies
Volume 2, Issue 6, 2022
Reparations for the Transatlantic Slave Trade: It History, From Donors, Distributions in Equal Justices, Development Cooperation for Eastern Nigeria and Southern Cameroons Growths
Author(s): Suh Hillary Sama
Abstract:
As objective to this study, the need for Reparations that has been a cry to the world at large was because at one time or at a certain period the world was faced with the abominable history of slavery and slave trade of peoples across borders and continent of the world and which today has fallen in to another new or modern form of slavery. The illicit transatlantic slave trade has generally been noted as people became victims of circumstances. The have been some clear reproduction of unequal geopolitical, social and racial relations within these two halves areas of research along the border lines between Nigeria and Cameroon. They were tortured horrifically and undesirable within and out of the continent of Africa as specific studies prevailed and revealed on West Africa and particularly Southern Cameroons and Eastern Nigeria in the Gulf of Guinea. Some points or spots has been chosen as a case study within space and time. Abolition principles became applied that brought slaves to succumb to end it all but limited the corrosive action. The wealthy economy systems keep booming and flourishing hence reflect on those who greatly expanded the riches lengthily has thought of some compensation which we are now working on in Eastern Nigeria and Southern Cameroons; these areas were the highest supplier of slaves during and after the Transatlantic slave trade. Some exposed sites and the offspring of slaves need to be revisited, and Reparations from donors executed judiciously to them, Now or presently wishing for development actions. This has always been in the territories as a political discourse with the absent of political implementation and justice. Here, those involve are trace with a number of methods used, they are known and some are still to be known nowadays, and in future thus, we examine all by applying some methods in our research via Oral means hence interviews as voices of the masses and popular counts much. Some written or documentary sources has also been of great assistance to this pierce of research work. From all the device sources, it is glaringly clear that some areas had been under advantages due to acceptance of this Reparation and some like Southern Cameroons in particular and Eastern Nigeria equally are gradually in waiting of this golden opportunity to develop as compensation to assist the people who were used and involved in slavery and slave trade.
Keywords: Objective, Reparations, Slavery, Slave Trade, Peoples, Southern Cameroons, Eastern Nigeria, Implementation, Compensation, Justice
Pages: 531-544
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