The Untold Side Of History.

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. From high school I only enjoyed history in class but never enjoyed the exams because of how many stories they ask you to tell. In a history exam you are asked to tell at least 2 or more stories; trying to remember the dates, names, and the town or place it happened leaves me with a headache, and it made me do science instead. History is quite interesting, especially when you have a history teacher that kills the job and can narrate the story very well and with illustrations to make it more fun and more understandable for students.

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One thing I have realized about storytelling is that whoever is telling the story decides how the story goes and who the hero in the story is and who the villain is, and that way it leaves many things unsaid and many things removed from the story or added to the story just so it favors the one telling the story or writing the story. Many of the stories we grew up believing are not completely true; some were modified and adjusted to favor those who wrote them or told the stories, and many things were removed and replaced with what they felt was appropriate, and we grew up believing all of it and hating on the wrong people as well as blaming the wrong people.

Once a story has been tampered with, it no longer carries the full message like it is supposed or expected to. Once something is added, removed, or replaced with what the writer or the one writing the story feels is the right thing to put in there, then the whole message is no longer what it is supposed to be. Many history books and stories were actually tampered with, leaving us with what they want us to know and what they want us to believe, which is quite bad. We have so many untold parts of history, so many uncovered things that happened in the past, and those behind it are doing everything possible to make sure it stays like that.

Many African countries were colonized by the British, and the slave trade, before it was abolished, was one of the major sources of income for slave masters then. I have read in some books how the slave masters tried to use the fact that many African leaders contributed to and promoted the slave trade; they said African leaders also sold their own people to them during the slave trade, but all that was said to justify their actions for selling a fellow human or to make them not feel bad. They make it look like if their leaders can sell their own people from the same town and place, why will they feel any remorse for doing what they did?

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There is no doubt that some African leaders were part of the slave trade system, but no African leader sold their own people; they only sold those captured from wars, not their own people, but the books we read did not pass the message like this. They made us believe African leaders actually sold their own people, but it is not so. I strongly doubt if there is a way to correct that perception that African leaders sold their own people other than correcting history books and doing that is something I don't see happening, so there is no way to change that and we have to keep living with that.