'Reparations Not About Guilt, But About Correcting 500-Year Development Deficit': Sudanese Expert
10:06 01.04.2026 (Updated: 10:24 01.04.2026)
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'Reparations Not About Guilt, But About Correcting 500-Year Development Deficit': Sudanese Expert
Slavery and colonialism "structurally underdeveloped Africa by destroying indigenous industries," imposing extractive institutions, creating arbitrary borders, and entrenching racialized global economic hierarchies, assistant professor of communication at a Russian university, Abobakr Mohamed Abbakar Khussein, told Sputnik Africa.
"Key shift is a move from aid loans, which create new debt, to non-repayable reparative finance," he noted.
However, while reparations can fund integration, Africa must rely on its own governance and collective action to avoid elite capture and fragmentation, the expert pointed out.
"Reparations are seed capital for sovereignty, not a permanent income stream," he added.
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