Maafa is a Kiswahili for term meaning "Great Disaster. It has come to be associated with the era of the European and
Arab slave trade. The resulting effect on African people: over 100 million people
lost their lives and their descendants have been systematically and continuously assaulted through institutionalized
anti-Africanism.
Ubuntu is the opposite of Maafa and was the dominant paradigm in Africa leading up to it.
Examples of the Maafa include Jim
Crow segregation, lynching, apartheid, colonialism,
neo-colonialism, lynching, forced sterilizations,
slavery, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and Stockholm syndrome.