The Africans were slaughtering each other and selling their brothers to the Romans and Arabs (Arabic for a black African literally means"slave") long before europeans were there. The big chiefs just saw another market for a commodity.
isnt it nice to know that the current corrupt leaders and murderers are only following an example set them, and therefore are not really to blame.
They have just carried on doing what they have for millennia. I don't care about the past it's OVER it's not any of our faults in the here and now.
I want to see them in charge of their future instead of this infantile victim mentality where it is always somebody else who has to save them, whether a witch doctor, or the west.
and I did read Heart of Darkness.