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Last updated: 12 november, 2009 - 12:53 GMT
Should African leaders apologise for slavery?
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A human rights organisation in Nigeria has called on traditional African rulers to apologise for the role they played in the slave trade.
The Civil Rights Congress says it is time for African leaders to copy the United States and Britain who have already said they were sorry.
In a letter to the traditional rulers, the Congress said they could not continue to blame the white man, when their own ancestors had helped to raid and kidnap defenceless communities and traded them to the Americans and Europeans.
Shehu Sani is head of the Civil Rights Congress.
First broadcast 12 November 2009
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