The slave market monument built in 1998, in memory of the slaves packed in caves in Stone Town, Zanzibar. It has been classified as a World Heritage site by Unesco. Photo/FILE
The word slavery conjures up images of centuries past — shackled Africans being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean, cotton and sugar plantation workers in the Caribbean and the Americas, and in this part of the world, captives being marched across Kenya and Tanzania to the slave markets in Bagamoyo, Mombasa and Zanzibar to be transported to Arabia.
But slavery is alive and well in the modern world, and in Africa in particular. The inaugural Global Slavery Index released last month makes for depressing reading.
