As the United Nations recognises the transatlantic slave trade as a crime and calls for reparations, a growing ‘global diasporic movement’ is pushing for action ...

Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.

The struggle for reparative justice unites the peoples of the Global South with a shared history of colonization and unites ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the ...

Introduction In the grand ledger of history, some debts are too vast to quantify and too consequential to ignore .

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This engraving shows the 1619 arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale in Jamestown, Virginia. The ...

The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations ...

Following a visit by President John Dramani Mahama to the Elysée, Ghana's foreign affairs minister announced on April 8 that ...

A 2023 reparation report from former International Court of Justice judge Patrick Robinson recommended the UK should pay a total of £18.8 trillion - equaling $24 trillion in USD.

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

There are 1.2 million Black people in New Jersey, which makes up about 15% of the state's population. The New Jersey Legislature has yet to pass the bill introduced in 2019 for the formation of a ...