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The Atlantic slave trade wasn't just a moral catastrophe — it was the most profitable business operation in human history. For over three centuries, a vast financial machine connected three continents, generating wealth that built cities, funded banks, bankrolled the Industrial Revolution, and created dynastic fortunes that are still compounding today.

In this video, we follow the money. From the Portuguese trading posts of the 1400s to the boardrooms of Lloyd's of London. From the sugar plantations of Jamaica, where enslaved workers had a life expectancy of seven years, to the grand townhouses of Liverpool, where merchant families lived in extraordinary luxury funded by human cargo. From the Royal African Company — a crown-backed corporation that branded enslaved people with its initials — to the Bank of England, whose early governors profited directly from the slave economy.

We examine the triangular trade not as a historical diagram, but as a fully integrated global financial system. We look at who invested, who insured, who extended credit, and who collected the dividends. We explore how slave trade profits became the seed capital for Britain's Industrial Revolution, how New England merchants ran closed-loop supply chains of rum, sugar, and enslaved people, and how the British government paid slave owners £20 million in compensation when slavery was abolished — a debt so large that British taxpayers were still paying it off in 2015.

This is the story of who really profited from the Atlantic slave trade, and why the financial architecture they built is still shaping the world today.

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The idea that Africa is "overpopulated" and that the poverty of its people is a function of geographical poverty is one of the most persistently promoted myths in western-dominated global discourse.

In this video, @Big_Mck forensically takes apart this myth, and the adjacent myth of Africa's small geographical size which has been promoted for centuries by the Mercator Projection, revealing them for the pernicious lies they are, and linking these lies totheir ultimate beneficiaries in the capitals of Europe and North America.#africa #population #poverty #thetruth

The AES parliament just opened in Niamey. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger now have a joint army, a bank, a passport and a legislature. Here's what the Alliance of Sahel States is really building after ECOWAS.
he AES parliament just opened in Niamey. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger now have a joint army, a bank, a passport and a legislature. Here's what the Alliance of Sahel States is really building after ECOWAS.

In August 2026, forty-five deputies sat down in Niamey and opened the first confederal parliament of the Alliance of Sahel States. Fifteen from each country. Three committees: defence and security, diplomacy, development.

It looked like a small story. It isn't.

In six years, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger went from three separate coups to a mutual defence pact, a 6,000-strong joint force, a confederal development bank, a common passport, a shared import levy, and now a parliament. That is the architecture of a state, built at speed, during a war.

But there's a constraint no resolution can fix. All three countries are landlocked. Every container and every litre of fuel still crosses a border that belongs to someone else.

In this episode we follow the evidence: what was actually built in Niamey, why Sahel security numbers finally improved in 2025, what West African port data reveals about who really holds leverage, and why Morocco is now offering the Sahel a different road to the Atlantic entirely.

No cheerleading. No dismissal. Just the receipts.

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Security figures come from the Global Terrorism Index published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, and from research by the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria. Port and corridor data comes from the African Development Bank and Ecofin Agency. Regional analysis draws on Chatham House and the International Crisis Group. Institutional details come from ECOWAS Commission statements and from Sahelian outlets including Burkina24, Le Sahel, Koaci and RTN. Reporting on Morocco's Atlantic Initiative draws on Al Jazeera and the Policy Center for the New South.

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In this video, South African politician, Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala posits that South African TV series The Polygamist presents a deeply distorted portrayal of a practice that has existed within African societies for centuries. She argues that polygamy, as traditionally practiced in many African communities, was not merely an undisciplined man pursuing multiple sexual partners at will, but a social institution governed by cultural norms, ancestral laws and communal expectations, with responsibilities and obligations toward every member of the family.

In her words, consent, accountability and the welfare of the household were central to its practice. It was not synonymous with promiscuity. Whereas she says, what The Polygamist depicts is something fundamentally different: a man driven by sexual gratification, deception and disregard for the women involved. Far from an honest representation of traditional African polygamy, she says, it is a bastardisation of the institution.

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Lyrics

Hook
Mi Deven Reach E Yard E Jampack
Mi Waa Fi Link Mi Uncle Grandpa
She Waa Fi Squeegee Round A Waa Part
Suh Tell Mi Waa Month Wa Donkey Cya Call

She Seh Ahhhh
Mek She Bawl Ahhh
Me Mek She Bawl Ahhh
Suh Tell Mi Waa Month Wa Donkey Cya Call
She Seh Ahhhh

Verse
Who Dat Miss Lou Bennett
She Wear Frock Caz Di Dress Too Heavy
She Fully Story And Naw Two Tell E
Tonight She Muss Ban Har Belly
Hutch Reach And Seh Him Feel Peckish
Round A Back Mek Sure Di Rice Shelly
A Kulukulu Mi Nuh Waa See No Henny
E Sun Get Up And Nobody Nuh Ready

Verse
Bye Saint Peter Bye Saint Paul
A Who Tek E Money And Gone A Dead Yard
Bredda Tukuma Round Dehsuh A Draw Card
Over Partner Argument Start
She Seh
Link Har Over Waa Part
She Waa Fi Feel Di Bomb Claat
Suh Mi
Push Di Beast Nuh Hand Cart
She Seh
Ayetian Yuh Bad Nuh Bloodclaat

Outro
A Wa Di Young Gyal Waaa
Hill And Gully
A Wa Di Old Gyal Waaa
Hill And Gully
A Wa Di Short Gyal Waaa
Hill And Gully
A Wa Di Tall Gyal Waaa
Hill And Gully



Music Video by Ayetian performing Donkey Call. ©️ 2026 Di Genius, TrapMilli Entertainment

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