Browsing: Reparations

Namibia’s new president means business when it comes to reparations from Germany for the genocide it perpetrated against her people at the start of the 20th…

More Benin Bronzes are coming home – this time from The Netherlands. With 119 objects looted in colonial times being handed back to Nigeria, it’s the…

Delegates discussed reparations and Palestine at the African Union’s 38th summit (15-16 February). African leaders advocated for slavery and colonial reparations, calling for financial compensation, policy…

In a landmark decision, Belgium’s court of appeal recently declared that the systematic kidnapping of mixed-race children from their African mothers in the Belgian-controlled territories of…

Jamaica is a sovereign nation, so why does it have a British monarch as ceremonial head of state? That’s what a lot of Jamaicans are wondering,…

Profits from the enslavement of Africans laid the foundation for Britain’s industrial revolution and global empire. Yet calls for reparations remain unanswered – with the monarchy…