Slave trade

Rapper Kofi Jamar has apologised for his comments suggesting that slave trade and colonisation had benefited black people. In a post on Twitter, he stated that he did not, by any means, want to suggest that slavery was a good thing to have happened to Africans and the many victims across the world. “I apologise for my tweet. My great grandfather, Prempeh the 1st, was captured as a result of the colonial regime, I’ve been affected by what happened in many ways,” the ‘Ekorso’ hitmaker stated. This comes after the Kumerican rapper, in a now-deleted post on Twitter, had noted…