The fact that slavery and colonialism are two inhuman policies that plagued the African people's culture with indelible and irreparabIe consequences is not a debatable issue. While reparations are being demanded by African nationalists from the Western European and U.s of America, with focus on labour, man power and socio-technological developments, it is pertinent to highlight and reiterate some aspect of social cultural damages that the obnoxious policies made on Africa. This paper, specifically, is a pointer to the evil effects of slavery and colonialism on African music and dance in Nigeria and in the diaspora. Thus, much more than financial and social technological reparation, this paper suggests ways of social cultural amelioration for the bastrad African music and dance culture caused by slavery and colonialism
