Wednesday, April 1, 2026

How does the pan-African UN resolution change the discussion about reparations?

words by Charles Brooks 

How does the pan-African resolution change the discussion about reparations? 

There is now a much different conversation about reparations and the reparations movement gaining momentum not only on the African continent but across the world as well.   

As the African Union’s lead official on reparations, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama recently introduced, “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity” to the United Nations General Assembly.