Slavery brought more good than harm to Africans — Kofi Jamar praises slave trade

Kofi Jamar; Ghanaian musician

Unlike other Africans, Derrick Osei Kuffour Prempeh, widely known as Kofi Jamar, a Ghanaian musician, prefers the slave trade and colonization to the independence and freedom Africans enjoy today.

According to the "Ekorso" crooner, if not for slavery, Africans wouldn't have benefited from things like music, which even gave rise to African giants like Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Lebron and others.

Though he admitted Ghanaians and Africans would be furious with him about his assertion, he still intimated that if not for slavery, music wouldn't have been in Africa.

He further explained in a deleted tweet today, September 19, that Africans through forced migration have achieved more knowledge and have impacted the world hugely.

“People will kill me for this, but our ancestors really knew what they were doing when they sold Most Africans into slavery, The is a great impact on the world as we see today. I swear we wouldn’t have had the likes of the Blues, RnB , Rock and Roll, Rap Music, Hiphop Music.

“Etc . Blacks have benefited and impacted the world a lot in so many ways due to that migration. Shhh we wouldn’t have had the likes of Jay z, Lebron, Michael Jackson , Kanye West , Virgil abloh and a whole lot you can mention,” his tweets read.

Moments after his post, he has been widely scorned and chastised by many on social media, particularly on Twitter, for supporting something that dehumanized and left Africans with unending pain and agony.