FAST FACTS

The impacts of slavery on Africa are widespread and diverse. Computerised calculations have projected that if there had been no slave trade, the population of Africa would have been 50m instead of 25m in 1850. Evidence also suggests that the slave trade contributed to the long-term colonisation and exploitation of Africa. Communities and infrastructure were so damaged by the slave trade that they could not be rebuilt and strengthened before the arrival of European colonisers in the 19th century.