Willful Slavery

Back in time Africans were forcefully loaded unto ships to various destinations in the Americas. They were to keep the myriads of industries working. Sources of cheap labour. Then slavery was condemned as man's inhumanity to man.

Enslaved African men

Many people paid the Supreme price to see to its end. When the United States Of America, that great icon of freedom, fought a fratricidal war, Slavery was the trigger.

Fast forward to present day, Africans not excluding Nigerians, assemble themselves in their numbers, lay hold of objects with dubious capacity to remain and move atop mass of water, and head for Europe.

Of course many die on their way to live. Lately, the number of African migrants who are all too willing to take the risk of their lives on the way to Lampedusa near Italy from Morocco enroute any part of Europe are in thousands.

Island of Lampedusa, Italy

Undettered others take the Saharan routes sometimes carrying babies only a few days old, in their journey to properity, only to die in the desert with their young. The ever growing army of unemployed persons are ready to become slaves anywhere outside Nigeria, to be engines of cheap labour, happily.

Another slavery has taken a life of its own, centuries after the end of the one William Wilberforce fought against. A brand of human trafficking has crept on us, this time without force. Its self demanded.

Their lands hold no promise of life for them, though Africa is the most endowed in mineral resources of all continents. Poor leadership has been its own Tsunami, failing to make good the promise of good life to the people.

As slavery takes an incestuous dimension, will this generation rise to the challenge? Will we rise against the twin evil of corruption and poverty and give hope to all of God's people in Nigeria and Africa? Will we put an end to neo-African slavery?

Great Leadership holds the ace.