Should Europe Pay Africa for Colonialism?
Africa is escalating its demand for justice.
At a high-level conference in Algiers, African leaders moved to push colonial-era crimes onto the global legal stage — calling for official recognition, criminalisation of colonialism, and reparations for centuries of exploitation.
In this report, Whitney Mckoy breaks down:
• Why African leaders want colonialism defined as a crime against humanity
• The trillion-dollar economic cost of colonial exploitation
• Algeria’s role as a symbol of colonial brutality
• Ongoing demands for the return of looted African artefacts
• How the Caribbean reparations movement is aligning with Africa
• Why Europe and former colonial powers are under growing pressure
As Africa and the Caribbean unite, the call for reparative justice is growing louder — and harder to ignore.
