ABSTRACT
Slavery and Slave trade negatively affected the continent of Africa, first as a source of slaves for export to diverse destinations of the world to offer free labour. Second, as a place where slave labour was extensively exploited internally by people from outside the continent for mass production of raw materials for export to the industrialized western world. Slavery not only produced much wealth and political imbalance between the south as the source and north as the recipient, but it also came with negative traits such as human rights abuses, racism, stigma, social exclusion of slave communities, social classification systems of masters and servants, as well as the dominant and dominated communities. By interrogating activities of selected heritage places associated with the subject of slavery and slave trade in Kenya, Mauritius and other parts of Africa, this chapter looks at the legacies of slave trade and slavery, and how the subject is remembered or not remembered in the continent. Some heritage aspects covered by this chapter include conservation and management of heritage properties associated with the subject, community and government participation, as well as the contestations, silencing and presentation of heritage values associated with slavery in the continent.
