Afrika in Focus Special: Afrikan Emancipation Day, Reparations and why it matters!!

<p>This week&apos;s edition of Afrika in Focus is a special looking at the issue of reparations and reparatory justice.<br/><br/>We explain what reparations and repertory justice is.<br/><br/>We detail the work done by the global reparations movement in getting the issue of reparations into the mainstream.<br/><br/>We critique the 5 significant events that have happened in the last year to address the issue of reparations.<br/><br/>We caution the hijacking of the reparations movement by unscrupulous White individuals and organizations for their own insidious agenda.<br/><br/>We also inform those naysayers in the UK to reparations that their taxes were used to pay reparations to slave owners as late as 2015!!<br/><br/>We end by stating that the issue of reparations is a moral, ethical and justifiable one which WE WILL WIN!!<br/><br/>Sponsor a Ghanaian farmer: <a href='https://www.growforme.com/en/home/'>Grow For Me | Now everyone can farm and trade!</a><br/><br/>Sources:<br/><br/><a href='http://www.reparationsmarch.org/'>Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March - 1st Mosiah (August) annually. Education is Preparation for Reparations. - Home</a><br/><br/><a href='https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-64527709'>Wealthy UK family to apologise in Grenada over slave-owning past - BBC News</a><br/><br/><a href='https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65125332'>Laura Trevelyan: My slavery link to MP shows reality of reparations - BBC News</a><br/><br/><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/08/california-taskforce-reparations-explainer'>California’s plan for reparations to Black residents: what you need to know | California | The Guardian</a><br/><br/><a href='https://antiguaobserver.com/dont-be-afraid-to-confront-your-past-bbc-correspondent-turned-reparations-advocate-tells-other-slave-owning-families/'>‘Don’t be afraid to confront your past’, BBC correspondent-turned-reparations advocate tells other slave-owning families | Antigua Observer Newspaper</a><br/><br/><a href='https://www.theguardian