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Title: | Global Africa: From Abolitionists to Reparationists |
Author: | Mazrui, Ali A. |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 1-18 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | slaves slavery compensation History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524900 |
Abstract: | While abolitionists in the 18th and 19th century were engaged in a struggle to end slavery and the slave trade, the new moral and political breed of reparationists that emerged in the 20th century is committed to the proposition that the injustices of enslavement have not ended with formal emancipation, but that they can only truly end with the atonement of reparations. This paper deals with the forms reparations could take (capital transfer, skills transfer, power-sharing), the dilemma of whether compensations should be based on the damage done to the victim or the benefits obtained by the violator, the reparations crusade in the United States and the demand that African Americans be compensated, and the institution by the OAU of a Group of Eminent Persons to explore the modalities and logistics of a campaign for black reparations worldwide. Chief Moshood K.O. Abiola was elected chairman of the group. Bibliogr., note, ref. (Text of the inaugural Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola annual lecture delivered on December 6, 1993, at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association of the United States held in Boston.) |