
Here’s a pic of President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe as he declined to shake hands with one of the rulers of Zulu on the grounds that he latently watched his people kill other Africans. The pic is not recent however.
Matilda McCrear lived long enough to become a human bridge between Africa, American slavery, and the modern era. Born in West Africa around 1857, she was captured as a toddler and transported across the Atlantic aboard the Clotilda in 1860—the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans illegally into the United States. Her Yoruba name was Àbáké, meaning “born to be loved by all.” The facial scars on her left cheek, preserved in photographs, marked her as Yoruba. The voyage ...