Reparations: Africa’s Reckoning with the Past
News Talk
In 2021, the Open Society Foundations stepped into supporting the work on reparations knowing that real change demands it. We created a new, multi-tiered funding approach that allowed us to support the strengthening of the global reparations movement’s infrastructure, help make it sustainable, and resource efforts connecting work across and between Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the UK, and the United States.
This has included working with academics to bring cohesion to the knowledge production on racial justice and reparations, working with legal experts to examine new ways to use the law to support reparations, and advancing approaches that demonstrate self-determined pathways to repair—as defined by the people who were harmed and not former colonial powers.
Our role as funders is to support reparations work while respecting the autonomy of Africans and people of African descent. Our approach to supporting the reparations ecosystem has been operationalized through three interconnected pillars: community power-building, advancing jurisprudence on reparations, and strengthening academic collaboration.
We have supported groups like the Institute for Race, Power and Political Economy, and the African Futures Lab to develop customized models for repair that are focused on creating prototypes for reparations models that could be scaled. We have supported...
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