What is it about?
The Libyan Slave Trade on sub-Saharan African migrants is a serious indictment of human morality. It is a disgrace for the African Union and indeed for the international community that such a degrading and inhumane practice as slavery still exists and nothing much seems to be done about ending it once and for all.
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We measure a civilization by judging its capacity to ensure justice is entrenched, and that such justice is available for all members that constitute it. Hence reflecting on human achievements on the technological, economic, medical and other fronts, while important for the purpose of institutional memory, cannot sufficiently address serious failures on the moral aspects. If the moral declension in human society is not confronted, then human progress itself is threatened.
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This article is about the failure of human morality to confront the practice of slavery of the type we have seen in Libya. It traces the causes of the sub-Saharan African migrant crisis and the apparent weaknesses in the continental African Union body to strengthen governance systems on the African continent and live up to its own peer review mechanism. It also exposes the hypocrisy of some European Union member states from southern Europe for cooperating with Libyan cartels that are implicated in human trafficking on stemming the flow of African migrants.
Lucas Mafu
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This page is a summary of: The Libyan/Trans-Mediterranean Slave Trade, the African Union, and the Failure of Human Morality, SAGE Open, January 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2158244019828849.
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