{"id":98770,"date":"2023-09-06T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=98770"},"modified":"2023-09-06T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:45:11","slug":"asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=98770","title":{"rendered":"Asante King declares: Slavery is not the African\u2019s defining identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALTHOUGH slavery would have eternally scarred the psyche, nevertheless, it is not the defining identity of people of African descent or ancestry.<br \/>\nThis was the declaration of the Asante King, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, when he spoke at a Distinguished Lecture forum on Thursday at the University of the West Indies&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2023\/08\/04\/asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTHOUGH slavery would have eternally scarred the psyche, nevertheless, it is not the defining identity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity.jpg",800,915,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity-262x300.jpg",262,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity-768x878.jpg",640,732,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity.jpg",640,732,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity.jpg",800,915,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity.jpg",800,915,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity.jpg",800,915,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity-800x575.jpg",800,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/98770-asante-king-declares-slavery-is-not-the-africans-defining-identity-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}