2025-02-21
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African leaders have called for slavery reparations from former colonial powers.
They made the call at the 38th African Union Summit in Ethiopia.
The summit was held under the theme justice for Africans
and people of African descent through reparations.
From the 15th to the 19th century, at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped,
forcefully transported by mostly European merchants and sold into slavery.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in an address to the summit
that the bitter fruit of the transatlantic slave trade
and colonial exploitation is having a lasting impact on the continent.
Decolonization alone in itself was not a panacea.
Political independence did not free countries from.
Structures based on exploitation and decades of.
Economic, social and institutional under investment.
It is high time for reparatory justice.
Frameworks to be put in place.