Nkrumah Was Right
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It is overlooked but the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, before it was conquered by the British in 1903, was the largest slaveholding society on Earth.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00083968.2019.1627019
The descendants of those slaves are most likely not doing well compared to the Fulani aristocracy in some emirates there…
It is overlooked but the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, before it was conquered by the British in 1903, was the largest slaveholding society on Earth.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00083968.2019.1627019
The descendants of those slaves are most likely not doing well compared to the Fulani aristocracy in some emirates there…