[icwhatudo]

Livingstone's diary records him gazing with "wonder" as three Arab slavers with guns entered the market in Nyangwe, a Congolese village where 1,500 people were gathered - most of them women.

He wrote: "50 yards off two guns were fired and a general flight took place - shot after shot followed on the terrified fugitives - great numbers died. It is awful - terrible, a dreadful world this.

Muslim enslavement of blacks in Africa continues to this day.

[vanilla swirl]

Obama’s ancestry is more Arab than black. Traceing his lineage might prove interesting.

[wolficatZ]

Suprised the BBC even used the word “Arab”.