Reparations for Africa Should Also Address Wider Systems of Colonial Exploitation: Scholar
Reparations for Africa Should Also Address Wider Systems of Colonial Exploitation: Scholar
African countries should break away from colonial-era economic structures by processing their own raw materials and developing domestic industries, Akil Kokayi Khalfani, Associate Professor of Sociology and African Studies at Essex County College in the US, told Sputnik Africa.
"The AES [...] Ghana, they've started talking about not just exporting raw materials, but also processing them there, cocoa, other goods, minerals. And so once they start processing those things, and it's not that that's new, actually, that those types of processing are things that happened thousands of years ago," he said at the event that also featured a thematic exhibition of materials on reparations.
Describing the burden of high-interest loans from international financial institution, Khalfani proposed that African countries should receive debt relief from such form of economic oppression that continues to constrain national development.
AU legal specialists are preparing a common reparations framework for presentation to all African countries, aimed at providing a basis for collective action on historical justice, Khalfani, who is also a member of the AU Committee of Experts on Reparations, added.
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