Conference plans to push for reparations

Barbados and the Caribbean have heard financial reparations are long overdue to Africans and the diaspora as compensation for the enslavement of people of African descent.

This message was conveyed at the start of the Accra Reparations Conference in Ghana.

The event is expected to produce an African-led action plan to push for reparatory justice, establish an African committee of experts to oversee the plan’s implementation and boost collaboration with the broader diaspora, according to a list of planned outcomes on its website.

CARICOM Secretary General Dr. Carla Barnett, says reparations from Europe for the crimes against humanity of native genocide, the trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans and chattel enslavement in the region is a priority for heads of government.

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