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How many gone – counting the victims

London Museum Docklands — Talk

  • A turbulent seascape painting with a red and yellow sky, featuring a shipwreck in the background and dark, stormy waters with scattered debris in the foreground.

    This talk will explore different ways of understanding the weight of African loss.

2pm – 3.30pm

21 Sep 2024

As atonement, apologies and reparations move up the political agenda, attention is turning to establishing the number of African victims.

This talk brings together leading experts to contextualise who is being remembered and to define what we mean by "victims of African enslavement".

It will explore different methodologies and ways of understanding the weight of this African loss – dubbed the Maafa or "great disaster" in the Americas, Africa and Asia. 

This event is part of the year-long commemorations marking 30 years of African Remembrance Day. 

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For:
Adults only
How to attend:
In-person only
Duration:
90 mins

Speakers

Siaf Millar

Researcher of African history

As a researcher of African history for over 30 years, he has authored essays, articles and books including Everyday life in an early West African Empire, Sword, Seal & Koran: The Glorious West African Empire of Songhai, Ancient Ghana: the richest state on earth and African Enslavement: the numbers game. His passion for African history has led him to travel and research historic sites in countries including Uganda, Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Jelmer Vos

Senior Lecturer in Global History, University of Glasgow

A historian of Africa with an interest in the Atlantic commerce, labour and commodity history. He is the co-editor of the SlaveVoyages website, which compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest trafficking of enslaved Africans in history.  His book, Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order, focused on the kingdom of Kongo under Portuguese colonial rule, and his next book studies coffee cultivation in Angola from 1820 to 1960.

Angela Haynes

Event moderator

Angela Haynes has taught in SOAS Department of Development Studies since 2018. She currently teaches on the online Humanitarian MSc programme, and is a Senior Teaching Fellow on Migration, as well as a coordinator of SOAS's Ebony Initiative Writing and Presentation Space for Black scholars. She teaches Afropean: African Diaspora Studies in Europe and Black London courses for Syracuse University's London Programme.

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