Pyramids? Mecca? Mummadad and anything connected to him? Good luck with that.
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The legality of slavery in Islam, together with the example of the Prophet Muhammad, who himself bought, sold, captured, and owned slaves, may explain why slavery persisted until the 19th century in many places (and later still in some countries).
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Saint Patrick's Day should be banned?
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Patrick's exact birthplace is unknown, but was probably in England or Wales. When he was 16, Patrick was captured by Irish pirates and taken as a slave to Ireland,
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The slave trade existed on Africa long before the "West" turned up. Even then it was the Africans that initially enslaved them and ran the slave trade.
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Most of our knowledge of Ghana comes from Arab writers. Al-Hamdani, for example, describes Ghana as having the richest gold mines on earth. These were situated at Bambuk, on the upper Senegal River. The Soninke also sold slaves, salt and copper, in exchange for textiles, beads and finished goods.
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To be sure, slavery and slave trading were already firmly entrenched in many African societies before their contact with Europe.
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Another aspect of the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on Africa concerns the role of African chiefs, Muslim traders, and merchant princes in the trade.
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It is important to mention, however, that the supply of slaves to the Gold Coast was entirely in African hands.
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All things conveniently(or deliberately) forgotten.