In the heart of Africa, a continent endowed with immense natural wealth, the paradox of poverty amidst plenty persists ...

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But the internal African slave trade in empires like Mali, Songhai, Ashanti, Dahomey or Egypt was the most pervasive and according to historians, more black people were enslaved within Africa by ...