APQ - APPON PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY

The Atlantic slave trade lasted for about four hundred years. It was carried out from the 15th to the 19th century. It is indubitably the most of the horrors human beings have ever dished out to other human beings. The enslaved Africans suffered mass death, as they were also dehumanised and the African continent plundered. One of its effects is that Africans were dispersed in Europe, the Americas and many parts of the globe; most of whom do not know their family root and heritage. This paper argued that given the disadvantage the people of Africa and most of the underdeveloped face in a globalised world of free trade, liberalism and advanced scientific results, African could be reconnected to their roots and heritage. In this discourse on the philosophy of technology it is argued that the engagement of scientific outcomes in biomedicine such as the Human Genome Project (HGP) and Artificial Intelligence can secure this. The paper has adopted problem-centric, analytic and historical methods of research. Its goal is to establish the fact that it is possible for the black race to be linked up with their forebears in their motherland, Africa by using advances that science and technology offer today. This way, the earlier post-slave trade abolition programme of returning enslaved Africans to places like Liberia, Sierra Leone and elsewhere can be furthered. Consequently, some of the lasting negativities of the sad history of the enslavement of Africans such as loss of cultural heritage, forced assimilation, underdevelopment of Africa, legacy of inequality, intergenerational trauma, racial stereotypes, systemic racism, racial tension, cultural amnesia, to mention a few, mitigated and rested.

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