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The article discusses the relationship between collective memory, the emancipation of slaves and slavery in western Ethiopia following the country's official abolishing of slavery in the 1850s. An overview of the impact of slavery on the Mao people and Komo people of Ethiopia, including their fleeing to Sudan to escape slavery in the mid 20th century, is provided.

The article discusses honor and citizenship in Borgu, Benin, in the post-slavery period following legal emancipation of slave in 1905 in Benin, with a particular focus of the impact of slavery on Benin. An overview of the categorization of the Gando people of Borgu as property, including in regard their status of slave descendants, is provided.

The article discusses stereotypes concerning the post-slavery period in Africa following the late 19th and early 20th centuries in West African countries. An overview of the impact of slavery on social hierarchies in West Africa is provided. An overview of the relationship between freeborn people and elites, is also provided.

The article discusses the social conditions and social marginal status of the haratine, who consist of former slaves and their descendants, in the shanty-towns (kebbes), or niche-settlements, of Nouakchott, Islamic republic of Mauritania from the 1960s through the early 21st century. The impact that slavery has on the haratine people is discussed.

The article discusses the social legacy of slavery in post-slave emancipation, or abolition, in the British colonial Sierra Leone from 1928 through 1956. An overview of the role that the British colonial government administration played in efforts to transition former slaves into forced labor, including the impact it had on local chiefs' ability to employ forced labor, is provided.

The article discusses the practice of temporary female seclusion on the southern Swahili Coast in colonial East Africa during Interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s, including the impact of slavery on this practice. An overview of the social status of ex-slaves on the Swahili Coast, including the stigma attached to formerly being a slave, is provided.

An introduction is presented to teh articles within the issue on the theme of post-slavery conditions of Africa following legal slave emancipation from the late 19th century through the mid 2010s with topics, including late colonial Tanzania, mass media and French colonial Sudan.

An essay is presented which explores the history of political violence and activism in the lost counties of colonial Uganda. Emphasis is given to topics such as British colonial administration of the kingdom of Buganda, the territorial claims of the Nyoro people, and advocacy for abolition of slavery by activists such as Erisa Kalisa.

The article discusses royal concubines in Ngaoundere, which is now part of northern Cameroon, from 1900 to 1960, focusing on the legal and social status of concubines. Topics include the conducting of interviews with women who had been concubines in the harem of Ngaoundere's laamiido (Muslim ruler), the system of slavery in West Africa, and everyday life in the harem. It is said that bearing children changed the legal and social status of concubines. The impact of Islamic law on concubinage and the status of female slaves is noted.