[Your reactions] The slave trade and slavery: what work of memory?
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The memorial to the abolition of slavery, in Nantes.
Getty Images / Lionel Derimais
By: Juan Gomez
21 mins
20 years ago, by adopting the Taubira law, France became the first state to recognize the slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity.
Why, with the exception of Senegal, has no African country been inspired by this law?
How should Africa appropriate this page of history?
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