Any Updates On Tafari?

[Farmah]

Does anyone (Sickko et al) have updates on Teofore Bennett in Angola? Is there site to his soccer club so that we can glean regular updates.

BTW: Did you know that many Brasilian Blacks originated from the Angola area of Africa during the heyday of Portugal's involvement in the slave trade?

[No Mercy]

His name is Teofore Bennett...

You will probable hear more about his promoter status than his soccer status.

We probable won't see him in our national colors again after the J.f.f financial disclosure unless he is willing to pay his own way.

[Hortical]

BTW: Did you know that many Brasilian Blacks originated from the Angola area of Africa during the heyday of Portugal's involvement in the slave trade?

The Portuguese kidnapped people from all over Africa. Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Congo, Magagascar, Ghana and all along the East Coast of the continent. Whereas many of the european countries ended the practice of slave trading (but continued slavery) in the 19th century, Portugal continued this practice until the 1850s, and had Africans in captivity until 1888.

[Farmah]

Re: "Portugal continued this practice until the 1850s,..."

It's hardly any wonder that Brasil was the last country in the Western world to end slavery.

[Gamma]

didn't know.....what about mocambique?

[Bricktop]

I wonder if there is a significant stock of white women in Angola? Poor Teofore

[Mosiah]

Why would they go to Africa's east coast when there were people on the west?

[Farmah]

Mozambique too, has to be, because they are among the six (PALOP I believe they are called) countries in Africa which emerged from the Portuguese influence and culture.

[Gamma]

my question was based on what mosiah said below....

[Bricktop]

Dem ask fi help in fighting off invaders. I bet they lived to regret that decision.

[Farmah]

Mo, I think they likely traded on the East Coast though I'm not sure. But some of the PALOP countries are on Africa's East Coast. Check the link below and look at the country in red on the map:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PALOP

[Farmah]

I wonder too! Though Mozambique has the Portuguese influence, I'm not 100% sure that slaves were also taken from that area.

[Hortical]

I believe the condition (poverty etc) of black people in Brazil is much worse than in the USA, and one of the reasons is due to the fact that they were kept in bondage until almost the 20th century (1888).

About 50% of Brazil population is black, but there are few black faces on TV in Brazil, see link for new black owned station http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan...d/fg-blacktv12

[Hortical]

The slave forts to hold the captives for the voyage to Brazil was often on the east coast. An African once told me that for generations his tribe warned people not to venture to the coast, in order to avoid being taken away into slavery.

[Mosiah]

Seems to me like relatively few slaves destined for the West would have come from Mozambique. Just would not make economic sense.

From Wikipedia:

History
Main article: History of Mozambique
Between the first and fourth centuries AD, waves of Bantu-speaking people migrated from the west and north through the Zambezi River valley and then gradually into the plateau and coastal areas. The Bantu were farmers and ironworkers.

The Island of Mozambique is a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay on the Nacala coast of northern Mozambique, first explored by Europeans in the late 1400s.


When Portuguese explorers reached Mozambique in 1498, Arab commercial and slave trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries. From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east. Later, traders and prospectors penetrated the interior regions seeking gold and slaves. Although Portuguese influence gradually expanded, its power was limited and exercised through individual settlers and officials who were granted extensive autonomy. As a result, investment lagged while Lisbon devoted itself to the more lucrative trade with India and the Far East and to the colonisation of Brazil.
By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies, like the Mozambique Company, the Zambezi Company and the Niassa Company, controlled and financed mostly by the British, which established railroad lines to neighbouring countries and supplied cheap – often forced – African labor to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa. Because policies and development plans were primarily designed by the ruling authorities for the benefit of Mozambique's Portuguese population, little attention was paid to Mozambique's tribal integration and the development of its native communities. This affected a majority of the indigenous population who suffered both state-sponsored discrimination and enormous social pressure. Many felt they had received too little opportunity or resources to upgrade their skills and improve their economic and social situation to a degree comparable to that of the Europeans.