CONTENTS

1 URSULA OWEN Editorial

NEWS AND MEDIA 6 IAN MACDONALD The case for Mumia Abu Jamal

UK lawyers argue for the retrial of an innocent man 25 years on death row

OPINION 12 CHINWEIZU The colour of racism

The long arm of white supremacy

SMALL WARS 18 BRAM POSTHUMUS The making of Liberia . . .

. . . and its brutal unmaking in modern times

ON SLAVERY 28 FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO A short narrative on a long history

Slavery is as old as humanity – and we haven’t kicked the habit yet

33 PHOTO GALLERY Instruments of Justice

Some familiar faces and some less well known in the fight for freedom

43 EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH Slavery for beginners

Myths and shibboleths re-examined

SLAVERY TODAY 49 MARK SEALY A road to be travelled

2007: celebrate abolition of the old trade and forget the rest

54 STRIPSEARCH Martin Rowson 56 PETER MOSZYNSKI A living history

Slavery has a long history in Sudan and continues to thrive

62 ADUT JEL Testimony 64 DENG MATHIANG Testimony 66 ABOUK DOUT DOUT AGING Testimony

68 EDUARDO MARTINO Little cats and big predators

Old habits and injustices die hard in Brazil

Credit: BBC

4 INDEX ON CENSORSHIP 1 2007 76 BARBARA ARVANITIDIS Don’t call it slavery!

How do you film child slavery without exposure and exploitation?

81 Bound by Debt

The persistence of bonded labour in South Asia

82 IRENA MARYNIAK The edge of the volcano

It’s illegal and rivals the scope of the drugs and arms trade but Europe doesn’t want to know

LEGACIES 89 ANTHONY GIFFORD Pipe dream or necessary atonement?

What exactly are the legal rights and wrongs of reparations for slavery?

97 REX NETTLEFORD Rex responds

Don’t regret, do something useful

99 DREDA SAY MITCHELL Mind forged manacles

Old attitudes continue to dog the education of Black children

105 ROSEMARIE MALLET To free the mind

The discrimination that stalks the British mental health service 107 FLASHPOINT PHILIPPINES 109 INDEX INDEX

CULTURE 133 LOLA YOUNG & NIMA POOVAYA SMITH Culture, resistance, freedom

Freedom and enslavement find their voices in art, music and literature

138 DANIEL BROWN Songs of slavery and defiance

The wealth of music born of slavery gets a new showcase

142 JOEL KARAMATH Shooting Black Britain

How to stay invisible without really trying

BABEL 148 FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER In conversation

The inheritors of slavery’s old crimes exchange views on the present

INDEX ON CENSORSHIP 1 2007 5