Nigeria, April 8 -- The recent UN resolution that recognised the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the "gravest crime against humanity" did not reverberate across the world as it should have, not even among Africans in the diaspora or those back home. I had expected the resolution to be amplified far and wide for the world to better appreciate the place of Africa's labour and inputs in their developmental strides. There was also the expectation that Black African regional bodies would go into overdrive, escalating the issue for discourse on all global platforms, across the media, including social media, and in academic circles.

Instead, what we saw was a mere mention by news organisations. Before long, it disappeared from the front pages wi...