Maafa: The Gravest Crime Against Humanity and the Fight Against Ongoing Anti-Black Racism

I’ve often wondered why Job’s suffering is seen as the worst when our enslaved African ancestors endured even more horror. On 25 March 2026, the UN declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade the “Gravest Crime Against Humanity.” Yet we must also acknowledge Trans-Saharan slavery, colonisation and neocolonial economic structures that still hold Africa back. We should rate nations by their criminal record against Black people, judging them by morality and Ubuntu, our African code of conduct. Exploitative systems—of humans, animals and nature—leave the worst records. Even today, anti-Blackness shows itself in subtle hostility and brutal state violence. Our history deserves the same global exposure as the Jewish Holocaust. We must reject the lie that Africans bear equal blame for their own enslavement and insist that full responsibility lies with those who built and maintained the system. Our ancestors resisted slavery, and we must tell their story. We need global recognition, reparations and a real end to neocolonialism if all races are to live in harmony.

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