Sanya Osha

“It is an erroneous, and often tragic, colonial fantasy to perceive Africans as vague and abject creatures plucked from wild, virgin territory for the benefit of culture, civilisation and the formation of identifiable consciousness.” Part two of Sanya Osha’s look into slavery’s forgotten history.

“The economies of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal and France would not be what they are presently without the transatlantic slave trade.” Sanya Osha looks at the history of the African slave trade and what it means today.