AT THE RENDEZVOUS ON THE TABLE OF DISCUSSIONS OF THE COLONIAL REPARATIONS
Every morning, I read the news before getting up. The New Times is one of the papers I read regularly. While checking the news, I came across information about the African Society of International Law (AfSIL)’s 15th Annual Conference. After finding out how to attend, I was all set to take part in discussions at a continental conference bringing together legal experts, judges, scholars and policymakers from Africa and beyond to examine whether and how former colonial powers should provide reparations for injustices committed during colonial rule. Discussions covered topics such as the architecture of reparations, fiscal and structural reparations, and transitional justice, among others. Africa has been for the longest time possible a discussion point of the slavery and colonialism due to the fact that African were among the many victims of these atrocities. Earlier this year the discussions were about the actual representation of the actual map of Africa. At its 39th Ordinary...