Reparations

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has called for a united front with African leaders on demands for reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonial-era damages. Some Western leaders have recently moved to acknowledge the wrongs of…

The accession of King Charles to the British throne has stirred renewed calls from politicians of former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their head of state. Charles succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth, who ruled for…

Jamaica plans to ask Britain for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said, under a petition that could seek billions of pounds in reparations. Jamaica was a centre of the…