{"id":1437,"date":"2013-03-29T20:10:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.wordpress.com\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2013-03-29T20:10:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:10:53","slug":"fighting-genocide-and-a-crime-against-humanity-cardinal-lavigerie-and-the-african-slave-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/29\/fighting-genocide-and-a-crime-against-humanity-cardinal-lavigerie-and-the-african-slave-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Genocide and a Crime against Humanity: Cardinal Lavigerie and the African Slave Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a title=\"Africa Must Not Forget \" href=\"http:\/\/www.mafrome.org\/Symposium_Tangaza_Laurent_Magesa_Nairobi_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Africa Must Not Forget <\/i><\/b><\/a><i><\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>No discussion about the abolition of the African Slave Trade in the 19th century can make much sense without recalling the entire four or five hundred year history of the phenomenon itself. What seems to be a widespread, deliberate, though subtle, effort towards collective amnesia in this matter \u2013 the inclination to erase out of consciousness<\/i><a title=\"Laurenti Magesa\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/laurenti-magesa.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1429 alignleft\" alt=\"Laurenti Magesa\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/laurenti-magesa.png?resize=117%2C175\" width=\"117\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><i> and from common memory the experience of slavery, particularly in Africa \u2013 makes the obligation to remember a fundamental one. Given the extent and depth of the experience and its consequences on the African continent an<\/i><i>d its peoples right up to the present, and definitely, as evidence seems to indicate, for the future as well, it baffl<\/i><i>es the mind, and is actually immoral, that people would suggest that the Slave Trade was merely as \u201can incident in history,\u201d and that the quicker it is forgotten the better it will be for the continent. On the contrary, it appears much more logical and ethical to insist that the reality of the slave trade and slavery be accorded a more prominent<\/i><i> part than has been the case so far, not only in the African civic education system, but also in the process of Christian evangelization and catechesis. <a title=\"Africa Must Not Forget \" href=\"http:\/\/www.mafrome.org\/Symposium_Tangaza_Laurent_Magesa_Nairobi_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/i><\/address>\n<address>by <i><strong>Laurenti Magesa<\/strong>, <a title=\"Hekima College Jesuit School of Theology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hekimacollege.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hekima College Jesuit School of Theology<\/a><\/i><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Must Not Forget No discussion about the abolition of the African Slave Trade in the 19th century can make much sense without recalling the entire four or five hundred year history of the phenomenon itself. What seems to be a widespread, deliberate, though subtle, effort towards collective amnesia in this matter \u2013 the inclination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[127,846,1314],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-antislavery-campaign","tag-laurenti-magesa","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}