Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori: 40 Years A Slav...

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show!When Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba in 1959, the American government wanted to see him gone. So, they hatched plots and tried to assassinate him, again, and again, and again, and again. Needless to say, none of them w ...  عرض المزيد

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show! In the 1980s, images of starving children in Ethiopia shocked the world and triggered one of the largest humanitarian responses in history. But behind the famine was a much deeper story of drought, civil war, dictatorshi ...  عرض المزيد

M'hamed Oualdi – professor of history at Paris' Sciences Po University – joins us on the afikra podcast to delve into the often obscured and forgotten history of slavery in North Africa. Starting with his book "A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa", ...

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Under a loophole of Muslim law, a sultan could take one-fifth of the spoils of war, including slaves. Learn how the sultan began a slave army -- and why would someone would want to be a soldier-slave -- in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

Rencontre avec Toussaint Louverture. Homme libre sur une île soumise à la traite négrière, ce génie politique se battra toute sa vie pour libérer les esclaves de Saint-Domingue, l'actuelle Haïti. Cependant, Napoléon Bonaparte s'oppose à lui, avec la ferme intention de rétablir ...