By Kehinde Andrews
Historian David Olusoga recently brought the legacy of British slave ownership in Britain to the BBC. During the two part documentary he explored how the Maafa was a central part of building Western capitalism, providing the labour and resources upon which today’s wealth is founded on. The industrial revolution, which is so raved about in British textbooks simply does not happen without the murder and exploitation of African flesh. African enslavement was so profitable that it built entire cities like Liverpool and Bristol, and furnished the expansion of the ‘great’ city of London. Even those industrial cities, far from the coast, like Birmingham have their hands soaked in the blood of the enslaved.
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