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By Donna Lamb

 
 

Global Pan-Afrikan Reparations and Repatriation Conference To Be Held in Ghana

Irom July 22nd to August 3rd, an international coalition of reparations, Pan-Afrikan, human rights, and social and economic justice organizations will convene a Global Pan-African Reparations and Repatriation Conference in Accra, Ghana, West Africa.

With the theme "Create the Future: Transformation, Reparations, Repatriation, and Reconciliation," the overarching goal of the conference is to develop a world-wide programmatic framework – or put more simply, a "Plan" – that will allow the International Reparations Movement to develop and coordinate mutually supportive activities that promote transformation, reparations, repatriation, and reconciliation among continental Africans and Afro-descendants throughout the Diaspora. The conference will seek to:

  • Deepen African and other Indigenous Peoples’ understanding of the global reparations movement and the mutual support for Afro-descendants throughout the Diaspora who are seeking reparations
  • Shape the conversation about the significance of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the British Empire
  • Promote a dialogue within the global reparations movement about "international capital" and its origins, the demise of capitalism as we know it, and the world-wide movement for a new economic order
  • Share strategies and tactics related to the respective local, regional, and national reparations issues, demands, and approaches for mutual support
  • Identify the present opportunities, prospects, and means of forging direct links with African grassroots organizations and diplomatic bodies, and
  • Explore concrete ways to participate meaningfully in African initiatives that invite African descendants to return to Africa – specifically Ghana’s Joseph Project and SUCARDIF’s Tower of Return Monument Project.
  • The conference workshops will be held from July 24th – 27th. Pre-and-post conference activities will include cultural and ceremonial activities, visits to the enslavement forts in Elmina and Cape Coast, and to Benin.

    The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) International Affairs Commission, Sankofa United Continent African Roots Development International Family Association of Ghana, and a number of other international reparations organizations request your participation in this historic reparations conference. For further information about how you can attend or how you can contribute to it, please visit www.NCOBRA.org. Go to the Events/News section at the left and click on the Global Reparations Conference in Ghana.

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