Africa: G-20’s ‘Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability’ Must Include Africans’ Quest

This year’s 2025 G-20 Foreign Ministers’ Forum was kicked off officially yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa under the theme: “Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability.” It came days after Africans have made their 38th Summit with a pivotal theme for the continent’s future: “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.” Both themes forced me to think as if both parties have discussed though most of the G-20 Member States prosperity was built on pains of Africans and African descents. Anyhow, both came at the time when the world is undergoing various challenges posed by geopolitical tensions, conflicts and climate change. It is time to strike right balance between competition and cooperation. We need joint collaboration among the international community, including the G-20 Member States, in a bid to build a stable, safe and prosperous future for the marginalized and undermined Africans. For this reason, Africans and people of African descents have proposed reparations as a civilized only and a must solution to remove the historical injustice Africans have been experiencing in the colonial legacy. We urgently need for accountability, healing, and restitution curtailing from historical injustices that have long plagued African societies with our own mechanisms for its implementation...