Our Ancestors were not saints- Africa and what you must know about our past history

It has become clear that our ancestors were deceived with goodies from Europe (Hot drinks, Mirrors, Combs and Ornamental cloths and Shoes). Our ancestors had never seen these items before Europeans arrived. Our ancestors were high on this excitement and was fighting over themselves to acquire them, so that they can distinguish themselves as superior to other members of their villages and settlements. The Europeans then introduced cowries (a form of money) which they used to exchange for these products whenever the Europeans berthed on African shores. Subsequently in the 17th century after the invention of muzzle-loading guns, they started equipping some of the tribes with guns to go and sack perceived enemy villages in other to capture them as slaves, so that they can exchange them with Cowries and Ornaments from Europe. Some of our ancestors who were privileged to be in close proximity with the shores of the Atlantic ocean took advantage of this new found opportunity to raid hinterlands of Africa for more and more slaves so as to acquire the Cowries and Ornaments from Europe. If you have noticed, the people who are from seaside tribes in Nigeria always pride themselves as people who first interacted with the Europeans before others and they always say "all of you from hinterlands used to be our fore father's slaves" So our ancestors were not particularly saints as we are meant to believe. Most of our ancestors never really valued human life, especially those who were not their relatives. Sometimes in my aboriginal place, fathers would sell a child considered to be stubborn into slavery for cowry money which they will then use to buy hot drinks and bowler hats from the European. It is important to note that most times the Europeans muzzled our African ancestors by oppressing them with superior weapons and organisational capacity to cater for their own selfish economic motives. This act also happened in parallel with our African ancestor’s selfish behaviours and lack of empathy towards preservation of human life of the other. This behaviour is very much alive in our behaviours till this present day. Our culture encourages selfish behaviours that recognises no empathy towards other people from different communities or other tribes. The worst of it being that most of our behaviours does not recognise the future wellbeing of our next generation. The African culture is not robustly scientific in nature and in the manner it approaches issues. It is apparent that our culture encourages folklore, myths and superstition as way of responding to issues.