‍‍United Nations calls for reparations

As announced in recent months on 22 March 2026 the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa made a final heartfelt appeal to all United Nations Member States to vote in favour of the draft resolution defining the trade of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. 

‍Focus on: United Nations - Colonialism 

On December 22, 2018 the United Nations General Assembly adopts resolution 73/262 (A global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action) in which, [...]‍

‍The end of the Empire

Recommended reading: A Dialogue Across Civilisations, for Now: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2026) from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.‍

... "It is difficult for those who do not come from colonised societies to understand the power of such statements as ‘defence of the homeland’ and of the idea of civilisational inheritance. The damage caused to so many social formations by colonialism is vast. Colonialism steals wealth and reinvests it elsewhere for the development of other peoples; it denigrates the colonised peoples’ cultures and often denies them their own language and their own sense of a historical mission." ...

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