reparations -

Agitation and mobilisation for reparations: Prof. Kimani Nehusi and the urgent case for Pan-African Coordination

Aziboat2 months ago09 mins

[ad_1] The ongoing debate on reparations cannot be separated from the long historical processes that produced modern global inequality. Enslavement, colonial conquest, and racial capitalism were not episodic abuses but coordinated systems that transferred African labour, land, and wealth into European accumulation. It is within this historical frame that the interview with Prof. Kimani Nehusi…

More than $130 trillion in historical losses: Why Reparations are an economic necessity

Aziboat2 months ago08 mins

[ad_1] “How much was stolen?” That is the question Pan-Africanism now confronts directly. Studies estimate that when unpaid labor, looted resources, and lost development opportunities are combined, Africa’s losses stretch across centuries and continents, accumulating into an enormous $130 trillion, marking one of the greatest economic crimes in human history. “We are no longer guessing…

African leaders unanimously condemn slave trade; call for reparations and return of stolen artifacts

Aziboat2 years ago06 mins

[ad_1] African leaders have unanimously condemned the historical injustices including slavery and apartheid meted out to the continent and its people during the dark days of slavery. A unanimous call has also been made for the return of looted resources by the slave masters and their descendants. At the Accra Reparations Conference, the leaders took…

Slave Trade reparations not a plea for alms

Aziboat2 years ago014 mins

[ad_1] President Akufo-Addo has stated that the call by Africans and Africans in the diaspora for the payment of reparations by European nations who carried out the transatlantic slave trade some 400 years ago is not a plea for alms but it is a demand for justice. The demand for reparatory justice, according to President…