Good one there Azizi, I agree with you on the aspect of the fact that some Africans also played a part in the slave trade. But let me also point out some thing to you.

One of the major reasons why slavery thrived in West Africa(that is the area I am very conversant with) is because we Africans see ourselves as one big family,therefore the norm for most families in Ghana for example was to allow their children to stay with aunties and uncles as they are in a better position(unbiased position) to raise their children for them. And the practice has died out,mainly due to slavery. And this system is exactly what the missionaries took advantage of. They made we believe that it was normal for our sons to be educated their way whiles at the same time using these people they trained to capture locals into slavery. It is therefore not surprising all the black slave merchants who benefited fromt this trade were all highly educated the western way(and I say this as someone who's hometown is home to some of these merchants). From time to time they would bring back some of the boys they had sent to Europe back to Ghana neatly dressed to impressed upon the locals that they had nothing to loose in exchanging their children for guns,alcohol etc. As these items are jsut token of the agreement to train their children in Europe. Those who realized this evil act were branded as devils and society frowned on them, that is why the missionaries frowned on African traditional religion and branded our worship as paganism. That is why up to now Africans will still try to reach Spain under dangerous conditions which kill most of them daily. The missionaries used their schools and seminary to train people like Bishop Palmer-Buckle to continue to enslave us,that is why Ghana's first president took the schools from the missionaries and placed them under government control.

On the subject of payment or retribution is not necessary,because it can never replaced what we have lost. We need the churches to accept their evil role and relocate with their members(both black and white) back to where they came from. APOLOGIES they can decide not to, but with time Africans will come to realize that the church is the cause of their woes. Soon and very soon.

We Africans have our Ethopian Orthodox Church to worship in.