President John Dramani Mahama has underscored the significance of reparatory justice for Africans and other people of African descent, calling it a significant step in restoring their dignity, rights, and well-being.
Talking on the thirty eighth Unusual Session of the African Union (AU) Meeting on Saturday, 15 February 2025, President Mahama echoed the AU’s 2025 theme, which centres on reparations for historic injustices.
The 2025 AU theme of the 12 months is, due to this fact, a name to galvanise efforts in direction of reparatory justice. It’s an attraction to make sure that the dignity, rights, and well-being of Africans and their descendants are absolutely restored.
Mahama emphasised that reparations lengthen past monetary compensation to incorporate restitution, rehabilitation, and assurances in opposition to the recurrence of previous abuses.
Reparations contain not solely monetary compensation but additionally restitution, rehabilitation, and ensures of non-repetition for the abuse of fellow human beings. Additionally it is about truth-telling, historic accountability, and accountability to those that have been marginalised for hundreds of years.
He additional emphasised that the decision for reparations should additionally embody increasing instructional alternatives, reclaiming cultural heritage, and elevating the voices of Africans and the diaspora on the worldwide stage.
The decision for reparations extends past monetary redress to addressing structural inequalities, making certain instructional alternatives, reclaiming cultural heritage, and magnifying the voices of Africa and diaspora communities on the worldwide stage.
