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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Chason

The African scuba divers rewriting the slave trade narrative

The Washington Post by Guy Peterson

The scuba divers march through the cobblestone streets of one of the world’s most infamous former slave ports, carrying tape measures, clipboards and fins.

There is a Senegalese police officer who’d learned to dive the month before, a more seasoned diver from Benin, the only doctoral student studying maritime archaeology in Ivory Coast. They are all headed to the ocean, on a mission.

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