Authentic News with Jim Fetzer, February 16, 2026 Hour 1

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“A most inhuman practice also prevails among them, that when a mother dies, whose infant is not able to shift for itself, it is, without any ceremony, buried alive with the corpse of its mother.” (Robert Moffat; Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa; p. 57)

“[I]t was tried to suppress the brutal system of burying twins alive and banishing the mother from all society, as well as the equally cruel one of burying a child, though living, with its mother, if she died during the period of suckling.” (Thomas J. Hutchinson; Impressions of Western Africa (London, 1858); p. 165)

“Amarar, … seeing a child of his own, two years old, at hand, when the oracle announced the decree, snatched the infant from his mother’s arms, threw it into a rice mortar, and, with a pestle, mashed it to death.” (nationalvanguard.org/2014/12/savage-africa-part-1)

“Not even the appearance of affection exists between husband and wife, or between parents and children. So little do they care for their offspring, that many offered to sell me any of their sons or daughters as slaves. They are, to speak the truth, in point of parental affection inferior to brutes.” (John Duncan; Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846; Vol. I, p. 79)

“The only articles of export at present are slaves and ivory.… Slavery exists on an immense scale in this country [Adamawa]; and there are many private individuals who have more than a thousand slaves.” (Henry Barth; Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (1857); Vol. II; p. 502)

“[M]y observations apply chiefly to persons of free condition, who constitute, I suppose, not more than one-fourth part of the inhabitants at large; the other three-fourths are in a state of hopeless and hereditary slavery.…” (Mungo Park; Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799, London); p. 24)

“Slavery is here so common, or the mind of slaves is so constituted, that they always appeared much happier than their masters; the women, especially, singing with the greatest glee all the time they are at work.” (Denham, Clapperton, and Oudney; Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in 1822, 1823, and 1824; Vol. IV, p. 38)

“The liability to fall into a condition of servitude is not so frightful here, however, as it is where there is a higher appreciation of personal liberty…. The African sees very little difference between the authority exercised over him by one whom he acknowledges as his master and the petty tyranny which is exercised by most African chiefs over their subjects; and so long as he is worked moderately, and treated kindly, he has but little cause for dissatisfaction, and not infrequently by his own choice places himself in this condition.” (Rev. J. Leighton Wilson; Western Africa (1856), p. 156)

“In times of necessity, however, a man will part with his parents, wives, and children, and when they fail, he will sell himself without shame. As has been observed, amongst many tribes the uncle has a right to dispose of his nephews and nieces.” (Richard F. Burton; The Lake Regions of Central Africa; Vol. II)

“A king of Ashantee cut off the hands of a slave, and bade her search his head for vermin with the stumps. If any one had accused him of barbarity, he would not have understood the accusation. It was his idea of a good practical joke.” (Winwood Reade; Savage Africa (1864); p. 420)

“Liberia was established in 1821 … to provide a home for emancipated slaves from the United States…. Some idealists were surprised when the [Negroes], freed from slavery in the United States, promptly enslaved native [Negroes] after the Americans declared the country independent in 1847 and they were freed from White supervision.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “Sporting Event”; Liberty Bell, October 1993)

“Under pressure, at first coercion and now bribery, from White nations, the Congoids have officially renounced slavery and practice it only when they are unobserved. In Africa today [they] quite commonly trade a wife or two for a goat, cow, or other more valuable animal. They often give away their children, sell them for a small fee, or use them in [deadly] sport.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “Divinest Poesy”; Liberty Bell, June 1993)

“You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters….” (Colossians 3:22; Goodspeed translation)

“Mr. Baker, the latest traveler in Africa, … [writes] that the most interior tribes … are all cannibals, and are the only animals in Africa that eat their own kind. Are they not inferior to all other animals?” (The Old Guard; Oct. 1867, p. 726)

“One of the slave girls attempted to escape, and her proprietor immediately fired at her with his musket, and she fell wounded…. The girl was remarkably fat, and from the wound a large lump of yellow fat exuded…. [T]he Makkarikas rushed upon her in a crowd, and, seizing the fat, they tore it from the wound in handfuls…. Others killed her with a lance, and at once divided her by cutting off the head, and splitting the body with their lances, used as knives….” (Samuel White Baker; The Albert N’Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources; p. 201)

“In February 2014, a hotel in Anambra, Nigeria, was closed down after two human heads wrapped in cellophane were discovered at its restaurant that had been serving human flesh.” (nationalvanguard.org/2015/05/cannibalism-still-stalks-african-conflicts)

“They were far below the brutes, as the latter show signs of affection to those who are kind to them; while the natives, on the contrary, are utterly obtuse to all feelings of gratitude.” (nationalvanguard.org/2014/12/savage-africa-part-1)