AFRICA VERSUS BRAZIL: THE ONE WAY TRAFFIC DEAL. HARUNA MUSA Department of Foreign Languages Lagos State University
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Abstract
Slavery has a long history. It existed throughout the world since ancient times and in different forms. Traces of it are found both in the Bible and the Quran. The transatlantic slave trade to the new world was and remained the largest and unrivalled mass forced maritime transportation to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Portuguese, in the 16th century, were the first to venture into this business followed by the Westerners. The first shipment of slaves in the world landed in Brazil in 1526 to fill the need for cheap labour to work in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike their Brazilians counterparts, the traffic between the West and Africa was a two way affair, although, both at the detriment of the continent. Cheap or free labour was exported to the West in exchange for expensive finished manufactured products.
Today, Brazil is among the six emerging powers in the world; it has turned to a melting pot in terms of her population with strong religion and cultural practices entrenched in Africa. This paper try to examine how Africa can exploit her traditional affinity with Brazil to work her way out of underdevelopment. For this to become reality, there is need to work out strong exchange programmes geared towards transfer of technology with our Afro-Brazilian kit and kin.
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