"The BBC's Idy Baraou says Governor Ziti Maiga sought to prevent journalists reporting on the ceremony, because he, along with many others in authority, does not accept that slavery still exists in Niger....
"The organisation says many female slaves are raped and subjected to other forms of sexual abuse by their masters.
"Men who disobey orders are flogged or in serious instances castrated.
"The slave drivers mainly target the less educated and poor members of the northern based tribes.
Go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3334099.stm
This is not 1826 in Mississippi. This is the 21st Century in Africa.
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Booker T. Washington said:
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
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