Or that Mauritania did not criminalize slavery until 2007 and Niger in 2003?
Most articles like this try to force a shared meaning between groups rather than allow these groups to create meaning together outside the dominant structure that separated them.
https://archive.org/details/PedagogyOfTheOppressed-English-P...
It also mostly omits how deeply embedded slavery was as an institution in Africa, long before European colonial powers showed up.
The wealthiest man in history is Mansa Musa, of the Mali Empire, was one of the largest slave owners and sellers of his time, and he ruled long before the emergence of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, or major European participation in the trafficking of black African slaves.
The article totally omits the British Empire's role in abolishing slavery across much of Africa and the rest of the world. British sailors and taxpayers paid a heavy toll in stationing the West Africa Squadron in the Atlantic for 59 years to disrupt the transatlantic slave trade, to give just one example of the United Kingdom's role in ending what had until then been an eternal institution.
And pointing out that accountability should be universal, not selective, is not whataboutery. In fact, Badenoch did not engage in whataboutery at all. She demanded accountability for everybody, which is not the same thing as saying that Europe's complicity in the transatlantic slave trade is made whole by Africa's.
It's all lumped together as "USA ended its slavery", as if the soldiers marching for the North were slave owners..
I think Whites ending slavery - among themselves AND among others - is just not something that'll ever be thanked them for.
The wealth of Mansa Musa was due to gold, not slaves. You could argue that slaves were used for mining, but that's a different argument from saying he directly profited from slave trading.
Every historical figure I can recall that fought to abolish slavery, didn't target slave trading specifically.