ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dynamics of the imprisonment of people of African descent, whether on the continent or in the diaspora. It discusses the x-ray lockdown case studies of African Americans in the United States and Canada, Brazilian Blacks, African Europeans, and African Asians, using China, Indonesia, India, Japan, the Republic of South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia as units. The lockdown of Africans in their own their countries are also examined. Beginning with slavery, the people of sub-Saharan African descent have been labelled and treated as the dregs of the society. Bad leadership and its feeder neocolonialism are contributors to the ever-increasing incarceration of people of African descent all over the world. Another glaring thing about the lockdown of people of African descent in African countries is that a sizable number of those in jails or prisons are awaiting trial. The enslavement of Black people was carefully replaced with mass incarceration of young men of African descent.
