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The choice before Europe: the law of the strongest or reparative justice?

European nations are starting to pay attention after a landmark UN resolution, but reparations is about more than symbolic remembrance or returning stolen artefacts

Ghana conference calls for formal apology for transatlantic slave trade

In Accra, Europe finally showed up to a conversation it can no longer avoid.

For four years, the global movement for reparative justice has been gathering political momentum across Africa and the Caribbean, from Nairobi to Bridgetown, from Accra to Addis Ababa. Yet the very European states whose wealth and global standing were built through slavery, colonial conquest and racialised extraction remained absent. That changed two weeks ago.

Liliane Umubyeyi is co-founder and executive director of African Futures Lab

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Jun 29, 2026 Africa Ghana Reparations and reparative justice

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