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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Liliane Umubyeyi

The choice before Europe: the law of the strongest or reparative justice?

Former French justice minister Christiane Taubira at the Next Steps summit on the landmark UN resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans, held in Accra.
Former French justice minister Christiane Taubira at the Next Steps summit on the landmark UN resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans, held in Accra. Photograph: Claudia Lacave/AFP/Getty Images

In Accra, Europe finally showed up to a conversation it can no longer avoid.

For four years, the global movement for reparative justice has been gathering political momentum across Africa and the Caribbean, from Nairobi to Bridgetown, from Accra to Addis Ababa. Yet the very European states whose wealth and global standing were built through slavery, colonial conquest and racialised extraction remained absent. That changed two weeks ago.

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