Throughout his journey to Luanda, President Joe Biden will go to Angola’s Nationwide Museum of Slavery to handle the transatlantic slave commerce and its enduring legacy. His go to to the museum will highlight the Seventeenth-century Capela da Casa Grande, the place slavers forcibly baptized enslaved folks earlier than transporting them throughout the Atlantic to the Americas. As a part of efforts to reckon with the historical past of the transatlantic slave commerce, the US pledged $229,000 to help the museum’s restoration. Washington additionally acknowledged that it backs Angola’s bid to designate the Kwanza hall, a route used to march captured slaves to the coast, as a UNESCO World Heritage Website. Biden’s journey may also embrace a go to to the port of Lobito, the place he’ll spotlight $4 billion of Western funding within the Lobito hall, signaling renewed US curiosity in Africa amidst China’s dominance.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
