Adekeye Adebajo | Global Africa’s quest for reparations

#Black Lives Matter Global Network, Rhodes Must Fall, and other civic movements mobilised anti-racism protesters around the globe in 2020 more effectively than at any other time in living memory. Oppressive statues in America and Europe have been toppled. In 2021, the German government apologised and announced reparations of €1.1 billion for a century-old genocide in Namibia, while the following year, the Netherlands government apologised for the Dutch role in the transatlantic slave trade, establishing a €200 million fund to address its impact. In 2023, the Church of England announced a £100 million investment fund for communities afflicted by slavery after researchers had discovered that its £9 billion endowment fund had benefited from the transatlantic slave trade. Harvard, Yale, and Oxford universities have all established programmes of restitution for their benefiting from the slave trade. This edited volume, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations, demonstrates the continuities of European slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what most now acknowledge to have been crimes against humanity. The book is authored by some of the most eminent scholars in the field from Africa, the Caribbean, the...