The transatlantic slave trade was not the most extensive or cruel experienced by Africans

We in the West are somehow hypnotised by the horror of the transatlantic slave trade, which took place in West Africa. This was not however the worst slave trade to take place in that continent. Coupland, Reginald (1938), East Africa and its Invaders. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Seyyid Said in 1856, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Dalby, Andrew (1998), Dictionary of Languages, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Fleisher, Jeffrey; Lane, Paul; LaViolette, Adria; Horton, Mark; Pollard, Edward; Quintana Morales, Eréndira; Vernet, Thomas; Christie, Annalisa; and Wynne-Jones, Stephanie (2015), ‘When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?’, American Anthropologist, 2015 Mar; 117(1), 100–15. Martin, Peter J. (1991), ‘The Zanzibar Clove Industry’, Economic BotanyVol. 45, No. 4 (Oct–Dec. 1991), New York: Springer N’Diaye, Tidiane (2008), Le Génocide Voilé: Enquête historique, Paris:Gallimard.