<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>In the 1980s BBC docudrama ‘The March’, hundred of thousands of Africans marched northwards toward the Mediterranean to escape starvation, prompting widespread panic in Europe about an impending ‘flood’ of ‘illegal migrants’. The current<wm> article provides an updated perspective to the story and examines what it reveals.
By: Dr. Abdal, University of Birmingham, Department of Anthropology

In 1899, a remarkable event unfolded in Zanzibar. British ships brought in millions of refugees, then mainly from African men who had escaped the genocide perpetrated against the Zanzibari people by the anti-Slavery Society, for whom they fought against the Sultan of Zanzibar in support of their anti-colonial resistance. These</wm> men migrated thousands of miles north along the infamous 'Luo and Mbunga ridgelines to the