UN human rights judge convicted of slavery
A UN judge and human rights “expert” has been convicted of trafficking a woman and keeping her as a slave.
For the past two years, Lydia Mugambe has served as a judge for the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. She was also a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. She migrated to the UK from her native Uganda, where she is a High Court judge, to pursue a PhD in law at Oxford University. A member of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Mugambe has published literature and advocated for human rights and children’s rights.
Last month, an Oxford court convicted Mugambe of luring a fellow Ugandan woman to the UK under false pretenses and forcing her to work as her maid for free. Prosecutors said Mugambe "took advantage of her status" to prevent the woman from keeping steady employment and forced her to perform tasks like cleaning and childcare without compensation. Mugambe claimed the young woman “loved” picking up the children from school “because she was seeing how people lived in the U.K., and also she was getting to talk to people.”
According to the prosecution, Mugambe conspired with Ugandan Deputy High Commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa to arrange for the woman to come to the UK in exchange for Mugambe helping Mugerwa fend off a lawsuit. Mugambe reportedly conspired to pressure a witness to back out of supporting the prosecution in Mugerwa’s case.
Mugambe told the court that she treated the young woman with “love, care, and patience,” but the woman said she felt “lonely” and “stuck.” Mugambe has been found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness. Her sentencing is scheduled for May 3rd.
According to the UN’s website, Mugambe’s judicial appointment remains in effect until June 30, 2026.
Africans enslaved by Africans
The case has led some to point out that, contrary to the legacy media’s anti-White narrative, slavery has historically been an African trade. According to African historians, it was African kings who supplies slaves to the Transatlantic slave trade:
Where did the supply of slaves come from? First, the Portuguese themselves kidnapped some Africans. But the bulk of the supply came from the Nigerians. These Nigerian middlemen moved to the interior where they captured other Nigerians who belonged to other communities. The middlemen also purchased many of the slaves from the people in the interior . . . . Many Nigerian middlemen began to depend totally on the slave trade and neglected every other business and occupation. The result was that when the trade was abolished [by England in 1807] these Nigerians began to protest. As years went by and the trade collapsed such Nigerians lost their sources of income and became impoverished.
The PBS Africans in America series companion book similarly acknowledges that it was primarily Africans who enslaved Africans:
The white man did not introduce slavery to Africa . . . . And by the fifteenth century, men with dark skin had become quite comfortable with the concept of man as property . . . . Long before the arrival of Europeans on West Africa’s coast, the two continents shared a common acceptance of slavery as an unavoidable and necessary—perhaps even desirable—fact of existence. The commerce between the two continents, as tragic as it would become, developed upon familiar territory. Slavery was not a twisted European manipulation, although Europe capitalized on a mutual understanding and greedily expanded the slave trade into what would become a horrific enterprise . . . . It was a thunder that had no sound. Tribe stalked tribe, and eventually more than 20 million Africans would be kidnapped in their own homeland.
Africans continue to enslave Africans to this day. According to the Global Slavery Index, roughly 7.6 out of every 1,000 Africans were living in modern slavery as of 2018.
