Financial Unity, Reparations, Narrative Sovereignty: Key Demands of the Pan-African Congress
Financial Unity, Reparations, Narrative Sovereignty: Key Demands of the Pan-African Congress
Calls were made to reduce African dependence on the US dollar and to reject any logic of submission, according to two participants interviewed by Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of the Pan-African Congress currently being held in Accra.
They believe that dependence on the US dollar keeps Africa in a form of modern economic slavery.
“Economically, if you don’t have your own money, if you cannot be yourself, it is as if you were a slave,” Mohamed Azoumah, national youth delegate, municipal councillor, and accounting controller from Togo summed up.
The continent already has the assets needed for its monetary emancipation, José Bois-Campêche, President of the International Movement for Reparations emphasized stating that “we have a market which is enormous, and resources which are enormous,” enough to support a genuine common African currency.
On the question of reparations, which “are not asked for, but demanded,” Bois-Campêche added that Africa must “use its natural strength, but this strength can be used only if Africa is united.”
Finally, faced with disinformation campaigns that undermine Africa’s narrative sovereignty, Azoumah declared:
“The problem is that we are waiting for others to come and show us what we must do.” But, he added, “today is the day for the citizens of Africa to wake up, to think about the continent. It is not other peoples who should be writing in our place.”
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