Africans enslaved other Africans due to tribal conflicts, lack of a unified African identity, and coercion by external forces like Europeans.
1) Africans at the time did not have a sense of themselves as "Africans," and had not really developed a concept of racial solidarity.
2) Warfare and interethnic rivalries among African tribes contributed: selling members of defeated tribes proved a way to get rid of opponents.
3) African tribes were forced under threat of annihilation or war to sell others to the Europeans.
4) All of these are reasons why Africans enslaved other Africans.
The main reasons why Africans enslaved other Africans and sold them to Europeans were rooted in tribal conflicts, lack of a unified African identity, and coercion by external forces like the Europeans in the slave trade.
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