A Review of Ayesha Hurruna Attah’s <i>The Hundred Wells of Salaga</i>

Abstract

The paper reviews Ayesha Harruna Atta’s The Hundred Wells of Salaga. It uses a qualitative approach by revealing the significance of telling the African history from the African perspective of the indigenous African. The sample is purposefully chosen because the text is relatively new and demands an exposure into how Africans contributed immensely to the Atlantic slave trade. It portrays the kind of patriarchal society and trade routes under a careful eye for historical detail. The paper again provides the heterogeneity of slavery that captures the different shades of slavery in relation to what African history is. A major weakness the paper reveals is that the book produces evidence to explain Africa’s contribution to the slave trade and tries so hard to conclude that Africans should not blame the Europeans for subjugating them. However, the text fails to provide the dark and rotten side of the European tyranny as some researchers have done to construct the depth of exploitation in relation to Africa’s way of dealing with slavery.