The African Union (AU), which unites international locations throughout the African continent, declared its theme for 2025 to be the “Yr of Reparations” at its convention this weekend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Voice of America reported that the theme of “Justice for Africans and Individuals of African Descent By way of Reparations” was the central organizing precept of the annual AU summit.
The AU Youth Envoy on Reparations, for instance, mentioned: “Reparations should not merely an act of economic restitution, however a broader name for justice, acknowledgment, and therapeutic. It’s not about dwelling prior to now however about making a future the place African nations can thrive with out the load of colonial exploitation holding us again.”
Final yr, the U.S. state of California got here near providing reparations — although it entered the Union as a free state in 1850 — however didn’t provide any type of money funds, as a substitute selecting an apology for implementing fugitive slave legal guidelines and permitting racial discrimination.
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