Overview
- Reviewed by: Roy A. Sweetland
- Author: Dr. Nora “Inora Kamala” and Robert “RAS Kahleb” Gordon
A riveting, informative – 44 page, beautifully, illustrated children’s crayon/marker drawing book, written for primary school level but also a great educational read for adults.
Little Afeni and the Cause for Reparations takes on the painful and complex task of revealing the horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the eyes of a little girl called Afeni and her brother Kayode who was killed in an ill-fated mutiny to free the rest of the enslaved prisoners of war on the slave ship. The book links Afeni’s current family living in Jamaica – Trench Town’s zinc shacks, suffering from mental disabilities and unemployment. Highlighting how various modern, social trends such as skin bleaching in order, to aesthetically assimilate are a result of slavery. The book also travels and links Afeni’s family living in the housing projects of America and other family members working in the diamond mines of Africa.
A must read for the entire family, which was perfectly summerised in the introduction by Lord Anthony Gifford Q.C. Attorney-at-law and legal pioneer for slavery reparations, who said: “This valuable children’s book packs a lot of history into a readable story, it takes us from a peaceful village in West Africa, through the horrors of the transatlantic journey to Jamaica. Its message is the kidnapped and enslavement of Little Afeni and millions of others caused damage, which her present day descendants still suffer, it should be read by children black and white for the history is too little known”
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A riveting, informative – 44 page, beautifully, illustrated children’s crayon/marker drawing book, written for primary school level but also a great educational read for adults.
Little Afeni and the Cause for Reparations takes on the painful and complex task of revealing the horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the eyes of a little girl called Afeni and her brother Kayode who was killed in an ill-fated mutiny to free the rest of the enslaved prisoners of war on the slave ship. The book links Afeni’s current family living in Jamaica – Trench Town’s zinc shacks, suffering from mental disabilities and unemployment. Highlighting how various modern, social trends such as skin bleaching in order, to aesthetically assimilate are a result of slavery. The book also travels and links Afeni’s family living in the housing projects of America and other family members working in the diamond mines of Africa.
A must read for the entire family, which was perfectly summerised in the introduction by Lord Anthony Gifford Q.C. Attorney-at-law and legal pioneer for slavery reparations, who said: “This valuable children’s book packs a lot of history into a readable story, it takes us from a peaceful village in West Africa, through the horrors of the transatlantic journey to Jamaica. Its message is the kidnapped and enslavement of Little Afeni and millions of others caused damage, which her present day descendants still suffer, it should be read by children black and white for the history is too little known”
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