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Global Africa’s quest for reparations for crimes against humanity
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
Chasing slavery’s ghosts: The Drax family sugar cane legacy
The Barbados government wants reparation payments from the successors of the plantation’s founderJames Drax, led by Richard Drax, a wealthy British MP
Pakistan floods show we must shift the global financing system in the age of climate change
More nuanced and constructive ways of measuring the vulnerabilities of nation states to climate crises are required
Africa, Caribbean have ‘moral high ground’ on climate change – UN climate change global ambassador
Both regions boast innovative, homegrown solutions but these rarely ‘get airtime’
Excavating the role of Africans in the creation of the modern world
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without the continent’s natural resources and centuries of cheap African labour
Ramaphosa says ‘vaccine apartheid’ means Africa and the Caribbean must work together
At the inaugural AU-Caribbean Community summit, leaders called for greater solidarity to prevent global exclusion
A new continental free trade agreement is here: But what about the regional economic communities?
The agreement could go beyond economics towards the political unification of Africa
Haiti’s first female-directed movie bids for Oscars
Haiti is still reeling from the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people but a nascent film industry has begun to emerge.
Island life no breeze with much at stake
As the tri-series begins, the value of international cricket fixtures is coming under closer scrutiny.
Caribbean hotel bookings plunge as economy sags
Hotel bookings in the Caribbean are plunging as financial turbulence dashes vacation plans.