An all-Africa event to commemorate African slave trade and colonialism shall take place in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on July 7, 2027.
The event, that shall be held under the umbrella of writer David Gian Maillu’s The Centre for African Aesthetics, is a clarion call to the Blackrace to fill in the staggering void of having no annual Commemoration of the atrocities of the African Slave Trade and Colonialism.
Maillu made the announcement at Mathemboni in Makueni County on August 29, 2026 during a brainstorming meeting that brought together academics, students, journalists, critics and civil society organisations.
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“In my capacity as an author and President of African Spirituality, using the registered NGO, Centre for African Aesthetics (CAA) in which I am the founder, I hereby stand to organize and lead a movement to stage the first commemoration globally,” Maillu, who says he has written a book titled Scrambling for African Blood for the commemoration, announced. “My past contribution to the African Slave Trade course is highly expressed in my various publications. I am the author of “Songs of slaves” in the KA: The Holy Book of Neter.”
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Maillu said he has in his private engagements written three yet-to-be published novels on the African Slave Trade which, if made into films, could aptly bring out emotional atrocities of the African Slave Trade.
He said the publications are titled Negrota, Fort Jesus and Scrambling for African Blood.
“Metaphorically speaking, this meeting is called at Mathemboni (the shrine) to find out how to go about creating the birth of that historic and permanent Anniversary for Africa and beyond.”
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