25/01/2026
This metal was used during slavery for 3 main reasons:
1) To avoid slaves eating fruit like apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, sugar, etc.. while harvesting them, however they were forced to work consistently on all plantation farms.
2) To stop slaves from singing their African spiritual songs. Not only spiritual songs also those of war, thus affecting slave masters, as they would motivate them to rebel and fight.
3) Lest they teach their children the African local dialects (languages), forcing them to learn foreign languages.
Sometimes slave masters would stick an apple in the mouth of enslaved before wearing the metal mask and locking the padlocks so they couldn't talk.
I'm ready to come for Nigerian, or any African Government that will make any attempt of stopping me from eliminating slavery in Africa 🌍.
~ Ibrahim Traore
