The fact that African were brought to the new world as slaves, and at one time all of Africa was conquered and dominated by the Europeans made them seem inferior. It wasn’t until Africa came out of the colonial that African-Americans demanded equality and historians of all races and nationalities readjusted their view of Africa. Slavery was established initially in places that had insufficient supply of labor. Slavery was a convenient way of mobilizing labor, especially sugar plantations. Sugar was a very labor-intensive crop. The population had never been exposed to common diseases; they had no immunity from the series of epidemics that followed. Measles, Smallpox, Typhus, Malaria, and Yellow Fever resulted in a population disaster. Thus slavery became more useful at this time. Other reasons for slavery was many did not want to pay the high wages that they would need to pay. Slavery in Africa was also about prestige. Slaves in Africa could be killed or sold and were without rights. The only slaves that did have rights were second-generation slaves. They could not be sold and slaves that belong to important people could later rise to a position where they would command free men. Sale of a slaves consisted of paying the local authorities, partly as a gift to demonstrate good will and partly as a tax. Had they been fisherman or any other tradesmen in agriculture, they eventually participated in the slave trade. New cities came into existence designed to serve the demand of slavery. The principal African carriers of the trade within Africa were the Yao from the vicinity of Lake Malawi. They first went into long distance ivory trade then shifted to slaves as demand increased in the Eighteenth Century. By the Nineteenth Century Manzibar and the Swahili coast became an important destination for slaves from Madagascar and Mozambique. Europe began to demand for slaves slowly but steadily over time. African institutions adapted to meet this demand; what Africa might have become without the slaves is unknown. Africans may have discovered new economic institutions, technology innovations, and a more rapid rate of economic development than ever before. It’s hard to speculation and say that the slave trade destroyed African civilization or detained Africa on its path to progress. There civilization was not destroyed and Africa made progress in spite of slave trade.

Military innovation became the dominant theme in Eastern Africa. In the Nineteenth Century there were major changes in the technology of war. The change came from two sources. One was Industrial Europe and the second was the development of new tactics. These new tactics were based on highly trained and disciplined infantry unit armed with a short stabbing spear. The discovery was more crucial than the actual weapon, resulting in the famous Zulu military. Shaka took over command from Dingiswayo at his death. Shaka’s wars led to long and complex sequence of

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