Obasanjo: No Race Suffered Like Black Race in Human History

By Towncriernews 

Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that no race in the world suffered like the African race through slavery and colonialism.

Obasanjo made the declaration on Saturday during a question and answer session at the Africa Methodist Council Heads of Conference Summit and Women’s Movement Leadership Summit where he served Chairman of the conference 

Obasanjo who decried the removal of History as a subject from the nation’s 

educational curriculum, said it was a 

huge disaster.

He said, “I don’t know where we got the idea that we shouldn’t teach history in our school. It is a stupid idea.

“It is like losing one’s memory. It will be a disaster. I don’t know where we got it from. Some people feel there is an aspect of history we don’t want to hear.

“There are always the bad and the good even in your own life. As you may know, I am a proprietor of a school, and in my school, we must teach History, and it must be taught the right way. You can 

then decide to take whatever you 

want to take out of it.

“There is no race in the world that has suffered like the black race, through slavery, slave trade and colonialism.

“In America, some people are now teaching that the slave trade was not a true story – that the white and the black went to the Caribbean in search of greener pastures, that is funny”, he added.