This is the story of a world whose borders and territories were drawn by the slave trade a world where violence subjugation and profit imposed their own brutes and forged empires. But back then there was no. Slaves with the driving force behind these emerging empires. In the 14th century europe discovered that it was located temptingly close to one of the planets most important trading regions. We tend to forget the riches that were produced back then in africa. The Catalan Atlas where did europeans appetite for conquest the winds for the benefit of travelers it also provided information on the military strength of different nations and it provided an economic map tracing the trading routes toward africa and its resources. A small kingdom was the 1st in the rush to seize control of the coasts of africa portugal. A new network of slavery routes was drawn. Very began this was a portuguese project there were coming out of the crusades fight and does more to what comes to this out so part
Highly speculative that he so figures then amounted to thousands of slaves were counted by lots and no more one by one and even the language changed they spoke of pieces please define the slave in terms of stature and age as calculations were made in terms of profitability. This is glove the this is more you have to use the expression slave production because within Central African states and especially the congo kingdom in small states that had separated from middle because there wasnt a slave trade strictly speaking about a joy you. Yup i do live to comment so the system and conditions that had to be created this Music Industry is on is not like that here it was people from the outside who fed antagonisms that might allow people lets say free people citizens to end up in the Slavery Networks today yeah this is over best clearly not it is order to discover that. Amidst all the traffic between the african coasts and brazil a slave ship ran aground off the coast of south tell me. The ag
President s account citing a risk of further violence the lived to cry of some of his favorite social media megaphone and in the waning days of his term. Im married to evanston thanks for joining me we begin with a tragedy in indonesia where a passenger plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from jakarta the gent one down just 4 minutes into what should have been an hour long flight authorities are now trying to piece together what happened. Indonesias navy says it has pinpointed the location of the planes wreckage and a dozen vessels deployed in a search and rescue operation are continuing their work through the night. Earlier they found the 1st debris believed to have come from the plane. We have found some debris and we suspect they are from the plane however we still have to confirm further whether they are really parts of this freeway jiah plane. The aircraft was carrying 62 people and was bound to the city of pontianak from jakarta. Airs chief executive said there wa
You. Think by the end of the change in lay a flip out. How will Climate Change affect us and our children. W dot com slash water. The corona virus keeps evolving. As it spreads its mutating taking on new characteristics that can make it harder to fight. Variants found in south africa and the u. K. A more contagious straining health services. This mutation has led to more cases than weve seen ever before numbers that cannot be explained away by the meteoric rise in tested. Japan is trying to isolate a new variant from brazil theres no proof any of them are any deadly but the virus is constantly changing and could eventually make vaccines less effective. But watching evolution take place right in front of our eyes the new coronavirus is doing everything it can to survive becoming clever at jumping from host to host the hope is that where doing everything we can to survive many big economies are back in lockdown including south africa. This isnt a waiting room its the treatment room for c
That well have more on that later on on the show welcome to the environment show eco africa a military way then to visit kano park in lagos now lets see whats coming up on the show today. Well take a look at a cleverly designed and which stands free street sweeping device in gonna. Find out why farmers in the netherlands are big fans of bad see. And hear about how people in the ivory coast are protecting baby turtle. And now were off to kenya the east african country has a high Domestic Energy demand i mean many sectors including the team the street people came to find alternatives to fossil fuels kenya is africas leading producer in cary coal country there are several t. Processing companies that are using Sustainable Energy sources from the local area lets go have some tea. When the sun shines the rolling landscape of times he comes to mind the fields are covered in t. The special climate here makes its pinions most important green region. Really has a plantation here is one of hundr