In the case of Africa, its material, artistic and human resources were pillaged, leaving a legacy of underdevelopment and structural inequality. As part of the quest for reparatory justice, and seeking to close this particular historical chapter, the African Union and the Government of Ghana convened, in November 2023, the hugely significant Accra Reparations Conference. It gathered together the modern global African reparations movement, including significant participation from the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), as well as civil society veterans from the diaspora and Africa. Now a similarly united structure and laser focus is unfolding in the struggle for reparatory justice. The outcomes of the 2023 Reparations Conference will not only establish an African Committee of Experts, from the continent and the diaspora, on Reparations for the purpose of developing a Common African position to implement the Action Plan of the 2022 Accra Reparations Conference, but also a Reparations Fund to finance its work.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 06, 2024 13:28 UTC