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African and Caribbean nations agree move to seek reparations for slavery, call for formal apologies from European nations (www.theguardian.com)

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The partnership between the 55-member African Union and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) of 20 countries will aim to intensify pressure on former slave-owning nations to engage with the reparations movement.

Delegates also announced the establishment of a global fund based in Africa aiming to accelerate the campaign.

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[–] Veinticinco@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why should we pay if we did nothing wrong? Its both their ancestors who sold them and ours for buying them. Noone else.

[–] nichtsowichtig@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

Europe stripped Africa of its resources. And it is still ongoing. While today we aren't responsible for what our ancestors did, we still live with the wealth that was never ours. And it is time to pay it back. And blaming Africans for their own exploitation is just absurd, sorry.