For historians of human enslavement—and for black Africans extra typically—the not too long ago concluded African Nations soccer cup revealed photographs of an ugliness that has roots within the Muslim world’s trans-Saharan slave commerce. As Senegal defeated host Morocco within the remaining, sections of the Moroccan crowd hurled racial insults on the Senegalese—simply as Algerian spectators had, earlier within the match, when their workforce was overwhelmed by Nigeria. “Get the black slave,” affronted Algerian soccer followers chanted.
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