Picture yourself walking along enjoying life when suddenly a fishnet is thrown over you and renders you completely helpless. Your mind immediately goes into a survival mode -- a place far deeper than your self-esteem or your mental sanity -- a place where your self-identity lies -- a place to which an Ancient African’s birth name referred.

What are you going to do now? This is the situation Africans were in when captured by fellow Africans and forever enslaved. A significant number of slaves came out of highly cultured societies, including the Moslem empires of the Western Sudan.