The Enslavement of Africans But why were the slaves always African? ... But the central question of which peoples from Africa went to a given region of the Americas, and which group of Europeans or their descendants organized such a movement cannot be answered without an understanding of the wind and ocean currents of the North and South Atlantic. There are two systems of wind and ocean currents in the North and South Atlantic that follow the pattern of giant wheels - one lies north of the equator turns clockwise, while its counterpart to the south turns counterclockwise. ... Winds and cu...

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To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. ... Much later on an unknown number of Africans migrated from Mecca to Ile Ife. At this point the Eastern Africans and Western Africans synergized. ... In addition to these areas they also inhabit the south-eastern part of the Republic of Benin (former Dahomey). ... By about 2000 years ago, farmers would have begun to adopt plantains (bananas) which, having been brought to East Africa from Malaysia, were spreading across the continent. ...

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