Coronavirus as seen in a microscope. Courtesy: ambiq.com
You must have heard that American lawyer Larry Klayman and his advocacy group Freedom Watch along with Texas company Buzz Photos have dragged the Chinese government to court:
they are asking China to pay $20T for allegedly creating the coronavirus. The plaintiffs alleged that the virus was released from the Wuhan Virology Institute. They stated that the COVID-19 virus was "designed" by China to kill mass populations.
The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit against the Chinese government, the Chinese army, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Director of Wuhan Institute of Virology Shi Zhengli and the Chinese army's Major General Chen Wei.

Coronavirus face masks. Courtesy: BBC.com
I laugh in Chinese language reading this: These Westerners think they are smart, they think the world is theirs as the superior people, no wonder French Scientists were not afraid to ask that the needless vaccine be tested on Afrikans, after all, France tested her first nuclear missiles on Afrika in the middle of the Algerian Sahara desert on 13th February 1960, during the Algerian War (1954–62) and nothing happened. But that is not the main point, the main point is, what damage has coronavirus caused to America worth $20T reparations?
If the Americans deserve $20T reparations for a pandemic that affected the whole world including China, then how much do the continent and people of Afrika deserve as reparations for the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and for Colonization?
The first known case of COVID-19 in the U.S. was confirmed on January 20, 2020, in a 35-year-old returnee from Wuhan, China, and this is just April and less than 13,000 deaths have been recorded in America, about 12,000 deaths in America so far (8th April 2020). Compare this fact with the Transatlantic Slave Trade that occurred for about 400 years: from the first Portuguese slave raid 1441 to the 1807 Slave Trade Abolition and the 1862 Emancipation of slaves by Abraham Lincoln.
The deaths recorded in coronavirus globally is about 82,000 persons globally, and about 12,000 for America, but the amount of lives that were lost in the slave trade amounts to about 200 million Afrikans. This fact is gotten from the fact that during the peak period of the slave trade: from the 17th century to the 19th century, the population of Afrika stagnated. The population of Afrika fell from 114 Million in 1600 to 106 Million in 1700 and added just one million by 1800 and kept lagging behind the population of Europe. But after the abolition of the slave trade in the 19th century, in the 20th century, our population grew, and by 1999 it had exceeded the population of Europe.This fact shows that tens of millions of lives were lost in the continent amounting to about 200 million by my estimates.

UN Statistics of Afrikan Population Decline Courtesy of Transatlantic Slave Trade. Courtesy: Wkipedia
With the fact that about 200 million died in the European slave trade, while less than 100,000 have died in coronavirus, who now deserves a reparation? If both America and Afrika deserve reparations for coronavirus and Slave trade respectively, who deserves it more and most?
The Transatlantic slave trade turned Afrika to a war field, it brought stagnation to Afrika economically, and socially it brought the idea of racism against blacks.
In acknowledgment of the underdevelopment caused by the Atlantic Slave Trade, Chief Moshood Abiola in his reparations speech in London, 1992
exploded: “Who knows what path Africa’s social development would have taken if our great centers of civilization had not been razed in search of human cargo? Who knows how our economies would have developed?”
Chief Abiola cited that Reparation in Oxford English dictionary means – from the Latin word Reparare – to make whole again” and concluded that “we have been damaged economically, psychologically.”
According to M.B.O Owolowo on Premium Times Nigeria, "Reparation is a powerful cause with huge implications for those who committed crimes against humanity for centuries.
"It has often been argued that if the Jews can rightfully get reparations for the horrendous Holocaust they suffered for 12 years, reparations for slavery in Afrika is a legitimate cause."

Some argue that Afrikans deserve no reparations for the Transatlantic Slave Trade that it wass Afrikans that were selling there fellow Afrikans to the Europeans. My question is, did the Chinese people not die in the coronavirus pandemic? In fact, the Chinese died first and perhaps in millions, so why still press for damages from them while saying that Afrikans deserve no reparations for selling their fellow Afrikans?
The case of China is that they are believed to have willfully created the virus in a Wuhan lab (which is not yet proven) but Afrikans never willingly sold their people to slavery, they were beaten to submission by the Europeans to either sell their people as slaves or perish, and many AFRIKAN kings perished for resisting slavery. Example of Afrikan kings who paid a heavy price for resisting slavery are:
the rest had no option than to sell their people, this is not willful my dear, it is acting on compulsion.
Examples of resistance against slavery, include:
"Kongo ruler Nzinga Mbemba (also known as Afonso I, c. 1446–1543) who wrote to the king of Portugal, João III, in 1526 to demand an end to the illegal depopulation of his kingdom. The Kongolese king's successor Garcia II made similar unsuccessful protests.
Other Afrikan rulers took a stand. For instance, in the early 17th century Nzinga Mbandi (c. 1583–1663), queen of Ndongo (modern-day Angola), fought against the Portuguese – part of a century-long campaign of resistance waged by the kingdom against the slave trade. Anti-slavery motives can also be found in the activities of the Christian leader Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita (1684–1706) in Kongo.
Several major Afrikan states took measures to limit and suppress the slave trade, including the kingdoms of Benin and Dahomey. Agaja Trudo, the king of Dahomey (r. 1708–40), banned the slave trade and even went as far as attacking the European forts on the coast. Unfortunately, Agaja Trudo’s successor did not share his view and profited from engaging in the trade.
Several Muslim states in West Afrika, including Futa Toro in the Senegal River basin in the late 18th century and, in the early 19th, Futa Jallon in what is now Guinea, were opposed to the trafficking of humans. In Futa Jallon, the religious leader Abd al-Qadir wrote a letter to British slave traders threatening death to anyone who tried to procure slaves in his country."
- understandingslavery.com
With the failure of the resistance against slavery, no chief in Afrika had any option that to sell their people as slaves, and so they did until it became a sort of culture.
Some also say that slavery existed in Afrika before the Europeans. The fact is that slavery existed in EVERY culture in all parts of the world including Europe and ancient America and the great continent of Afrika. But what we had in Afrika generally was domestic slavery which is more like having house servants. We also had military slaves for war, bondservants from debts and slaves for sacrifice as in Ashanti but never chattel slavery and never the slave trade in reference to the Roman slave trade in ancient times and the Arab slave trade.
Generally, as mentioned earlier, what we had in Afrika was domestic slavery, and we have an idea of how we treated our own:
"Enslaved people generally did the same agricultural and artisanal work as free people and dressed in a similar manner. Their role was to augment family and community labor rather than to replace it. In societies with decentralized political systems, slaves were dispersed instead of concentrated. Lacking a standing army to pursue runaways or crush rebellions, the village patriarchs gave enslaved people incentives to remain loyal by promoting incorporation and economic mobility." - Mr. Harms, a professor of history and African Studies at Yale University and the author of “The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade,” among other books.
The world is saying China staged a political-economic take over from the US by playing a dirty game of making omelets by first breaking their own eggs (sacrificing their own people in Covid19 to gain world power), but Afrikans were sacrificed in hundreds of millions to build Europe and the Americas: both the North and Southern American continents while Afrika was underdeveloped. So the perpetrators of the Transatlantic Slave trade should know they are beneficiaries of this same sin so they have cast the first stone.
For the 400 years of the enslavement of Afrika, the Europeans and the Americans owe Afrika Two Hundred and Fifty Trillion Dollars $200T. The $200T is $50T for each century of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: for the lives lost and for the stagnation one destruction they brought to the continent of Afrika.
I end this with a statement made by Chief Abiola, it says:
“It is international law which compels Nigeria to pay her debts to western banks and financial institutions: it is international law which must now demand that the western nations pay us what they have owed us for six centuries.”
Eze Chimere Nwauzo
Leader of OAF
Author of "The Wisdom & the Power of Afrikan Unity"
REFERENCES:
WSJ.com
Understanding slavery.com
Wikipedia.org
Eze Afrika
