‘Maangamizi’ is a Swahili word for the genocidal consequences of slavery (see also ‘Effects of Slavery’). The song itself was prompted by the campaign for reparations for the slave trade. Akala, an activist and educator as well as musician and author, construes Maangamizi as the ‘African hellacaust’, in a song that documents the history of slavery and colonialism from Ancient Greece to the present (and the role of the World Bank and the IMF).