Recolonizing Africa : Bruce Gilley and the Language of Stupid

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Africa has been in trouble since 1441 when the Portuguese sailors, Antão Gonçalves and Nuno Tristão, “threw down rusted anchor” in Cabo Branco on the coast of modern Mauritania, went on land, collared 12 Africans like wild game, decked them down the rotten holes of a pirate ship and chain-ganged them into Portugal as chattel slaves. The captured men could have been specimen of some hibernating genus to be quickened into brutal medieval ‘new-world’ life in a culturing of slaps, kicks, branding with hot iron like cattle, lashes from horsewhips; slave auctions and unpaid back-breaking donkey’s labour in inclement weather for 400 years. In other words, those initial kidnapped 12 were articles of ‘the wicked trade.’ That was terrorism at its most bestial...