Claim: Video showing a slave market in Africa.
Fact-check: Old video showing a religious ritual in Senegal shared as the visuals of slave markets in Africa - FACTLY
Verdict: the video shows the visuals of a religious ritual that usually practised by the serer ethnoreligious community in the west african nation of senegal. the video shared in the post was taken during the ndut initiation rituals at djilass village in senegal in december 2022. the video does not depict a slave market in africa. hence, the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Dilip Kumar Sripada
Date published: 2023-08-31T10:43:57