Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s 35-year-old president, has launched a no-holds-barred fight for complete independence of Africa from Western neo-colonialism and subjugation.

For centuries, Africa has been subject to hyper-exploitation by the colonial West, from the plunder of resources, facilitation of slave trade, genocide, and the subjugation of the continent and its resources.

“What to the slave is the Fourth of July," asked Frederick Douglass in his scathing speech at the US Independence Day function on July 5, 1852. These words of a former slave turned author and orator who spearheaded a popular movement to abolish slavery in the US ring true even 171 years on.

Bahrain’s most prominent Shia cleric says the ruling Al Khalifah regime is trying to place the yoke of slavery on the nation.

The death of the UK's longest-reigning monarch and the subsequent coronation of her successor has rekindled the long-running debate about colonialism and how the British monarchy spawned systems of oppression and slavery.

Suicide rates in the US are among the highest in the world, having increased by one third since 1999, becoming the 10th leading cause of death in “the land of the brave and the free”.

Jamaica is once again mobilizing its national assets to demand slavery-related reparations from the UK.