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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Natricia Duncan in Kingston

How slavery reparations could help make yearning to return to Africa a reality

Barbara Blake Hannah smiles wearing a cross necklace and medal
Author Barbara Blake Hannah said the drive to return to Africa was ‘the most powerful and continuous demand made by Rastafari’. Photograph: supplied

Supporting the right for people of African descent to return to the continent has become a key pillar of the growing global push for reparatory justice from Britain and other colonisers.

When Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, visited Jamaica this month he addressed the issue of repatriation for Jamaicans and others whose ancestors were kidnapped from Africa and sold into transatlantic chattel slavery.

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