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By Dave Imbua

around the Atlantic is an engaging and lucid memory of a chain of occasions and effects: the age of affection in Africa, the reign of terror, the seize and commoditization of humans, their cargo to the Americas, the incessant and arduous exactions
meted on them, the brutalization and cruelties they skilled, the survival and tenacity of African values, the fight for freedom, and emancipation, and the effective go back to Africa.

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