ALTHOUGH some religious cultures and state systems rooted in religion are still generally tolerant of practices that verge on slavery, the recent exposé by the CNN of thriving slave markets in Libya confirmed, to the shock of the civilised peoples of the world, the existence of this long abolished abominable practice.
It is no longer news that thousands of Nigerians and other Black Africans are being held in camps in anarchy-ruled, post-Muammar Gaddafi Libya, where they are sold for as little as $400 (about N150,000). These youthful, misguided Africans fall into the nets of human traffickers in their quest to escape into Europe for “better life”. Most of them end up dying in the Sahara Desert or drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. Some fall victim to human organ hunters or get sold as slaves. Libya became a thriving theatre of barbarity and human suffering after Gaddafi’s…
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