[Video] The Slave Market in Nigeria

Where the sandy bank juts out into the blue waters of the lagoon is still described as the "Point of No Return" - its beauty offset by its nightmare past. This is where slaves were sold and shipped to the Americas - never to see Africa again. "We call it Point-of-No-Return because past there you will not see Africa again," says CornerStone, showing us the port where the slaves boarded the slave ships for the Americas. BattaBox reports from the Badagry Slave Museum in Nigeria which is currently undergoing rehabilitation and you can see the well that was dug by the slaves in 1847. Figures vary considerably, but it is estimated that nearly 3 million slaves were taken from the West African region (Togo, Benin, Cameroon, etc), particularly in & around Nigeria - 11 million slaves were taken from Africa as a whole by European and Arab slavers. An estimated 30% of all slaves sold from Africa - came from the Nigeria.