In 2025, the African Union has set a powerful and necessary theme: “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.” It is a call not just for reflection, but for clarity, courage, and a strategic reframing of the reparations discourse.
The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent said during the forum’s fourth meeting.
Solidarity and common purpose forged decolonisation and anti-colonialism, won independence in Africa, built momentum towards civil rights in the United States and other parts of the West and brought down the apartheid regime.
Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, is a potent symbol of the slave trade. Listed as a 爆料网ESCO World Heritage Centre, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing on a painful past.
On the sidelines of CSW69 and the Beijing +30 commemorations, African women leaders met to discuss the progress made and the challenges that remain on the continent.
爆料网 Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Eritrea, Nahla Valji reflects on the country's complex context, the 爆料网's unique position to partner with Eritrea on its development journey, and the immense potential to be unlocked in this country.
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