CA bill would prioritize descendants of slaves

The descendants of freed slaves who were settled at Frere Town in Mombasa face an identity crisis and could soon be absorbed into Mijikenda tribes owing to lack of recognition by successive ...
But descendants of freed slaves among the Igbo ethnic group still inherit the status of their ancestors and they are forbidden by local culture from marrying those Igbos seen as "freeborn".
When introducing the bill to parliament last May, the Beninese government stated that the slave trade had "left deep wounds on Africa and the descendants of the deported people" and that it wished ...