MALI: Iddar Ag Ogazide: "They like to enslave the children early"
Iddar Ag Ogazide, a black Tamasheq, was born in 1973 at Tinahamma near Ansongo in northern Mali, 1350km north of Bamako. His family have been owned by the Touareg Ag Baye family at Intakabarte for several generations. In March this year Iddar finally decided he had had enough and made a dramatic escape. "I was born into slavery because my mother was a slave. My owner's family had bought her grandmother, so that made our whole family inheritable slaves."
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79239MALI: Thousands still live in slavery in north
People continue to be enslaved in northern Mali, according to Malian human rights organisation Temedt, despite a widespread belief that slavery no longer exists in the country. Read more in the Hear our Voices on Iddar Ag Ogazide. "The government believes slavery ended with independence, when many of the people who had been living as slaves in the colonial period were freed," said Temedt President Mohammed Ag Akeratane, "but I would estimate there are still several thousand people living in slavery or slavery-like conditions in modern Mali." According to Temedt, which means "solidarity" in the Touareg language Tamasheq, slavery continues in the north in the region of Gao 1,200km north of the capital, Bamako, and around the town of Menaka 1,500km north of Bamako.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79242
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Well, my friend, knowledge is grossly over-rated.
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Warren G > KWASI AkyeampongAugust 1, 2008 at 12:41pm
Blessings. What is truly happening to our Motherland? Diaspora Africans are at their lowest visionary position ever. We have more resources, economics, knowledge, wisdom, experience, we are truly free to go anywhere in the world however we consistently and consistently let our Motherland down due to lack of action.
I am pushing everyone to put their own personal ego and agendas to the secondary position and put African Unity Consciousness first. Many with knowledge and overstanding talk a good game and there are a few who are actually doing for our Motherland but the majority of knowledgeable Africans are have not real impact on this and other serious issues.
One day, the Creator will bless us with overstanding that a African Unity Consciousness will bring us back to our proper place in the world. It must start with the Diapsora Africans of the US, Canada and Europe.
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All the this you know makes no difference...not one squat...unless that knowledge is jettersoned in to created action.
So now you know...what now???
I am pushing everyone to put their own personal ego and agendas to the secondary position and put African Unity Consciousness first. Many with knowledge and overstanding talk a good game and there are a few who are actually doing for our Motherland but the majority of knowledgeable Africans are have not real impact on this and other serious issues.
One day, the Creator will bless us with overstanding that a African Unity Consciousness will bring us back to our proper place in the world. It must start with the Diapsora Africans of the US, Canada and Europe.