Repairing our Minds, a True Step Towards Reparations: A conversation with Prof Kimani Nehusi

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• JULOR CAESAR 1 day ago

  Slavery was a political act? Oh no, it was an act of greed initiated by greedy and evil African chiefs and crooked traders. It was African chiefs and African traders who decided to sell their captured Africans to the European ...
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  Slavery was a political act? Oh no, it was an act of greed initiated by greedy and evil African chiefs and crooked traders. It was African chiefs and African traders who decided to sell their captured Africans to the Europeans in exchange for cheap weapons, European liquor, cloth and other supplies. Once these Europeans discovered that they could easily acquire captured Africans, they decided to expand their business by funding these greedy African chiefs to bring more captured Africans. Once the number of captured Africans began to increase highly, the European merchants who initially wanted captured Africans to be transported to the Caribbean islands to work on sugar plantations now saw a way to make even more money for their purchased Africans by supplying them to landowners in the North America and South America. Unfortunately for the sold Africans, the evil and extreme greed of White land owners in the Americas soon descended into human tragedy, second only to the holocaust. It was only far into the practice of slavery that politics soon seeped into the slavery equation. When it comes to the issue of reparations, African leaders calling for reparations for African countries are simply being hypocrites. African countries initiated the sale of Africans to European merchants, and these captured Africans, over centuries, endured the heavy human indignities and depravations. Those entitled to reparations are the descendants of slaves in the countries where slaves were held and made to toil daily on lands under whips and without pay. Even after the abolition of slavery, these slave-owning countries in the Americas resorted to enacting Jim Crowe laws that denied them equal participation in education, politics, jobs, owning of land or even free movement, and even going to the point of classifying these descendants of slaves as either sub-human or a fraction of humans. African nations do not deserve any reparations because these African nations were complicit in that evil trade of humans. If anything at all, the African nations where slaves were traded and shipped overseas owe the descendants of slaves an apology and more. Countries where slavery was practiced must pay a form of reparations to all known descendants of slaves in their countries. African countries do not deserve any form of reparations, for they have to bow their heads in shame for the evil act that subjected their citizens to, a sale of humans on the African continent for transport to other continents to be used and abused as slaves for centuries.

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• H Aborbi 23 hours ago

  The African leaders who talk about reparations hardly talk of the descendents of the slaves who actually suffered all kinds of indignity in the countries in which they were taken.

  The African leaders who talk about reparations hardly talk of the descendents of the slaves who actually suffered all kinds of indignity in the countries in which they were taken.

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• JULOR CAESAR 7 hours ago

  Those clueless and stomach begging African leaders know only one thing about reparations: money from guilt-laden former slave owning countries pouring into African countries so that the African thieving politicians can have a ...
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  Those clueless and stomach begging African leaders know only one thing about reparations: money from guilt-laden former slave owning countries pouring into African countries so that the African thieving politicians can have access to more money to pad their bank accounts. The quality of leadership in Africa continues to be on the decline, and unfortunately the continent will also continue to be a continent that specializes in consumption and begging.

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• THE FOOLISHNESS OF AN IDEA 1 day ago

  Reparation to whom? It's true that slavery was maybe the worst example of man's inhumanity to man. Yet who was complicit? Some tribes in Ghana, notably the Asante, even some groups in Togo and Benin, sold captured people to t ...
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  Reparation to whom? It's true that slavery was maybe the worst example of man's inhumanity to man. Yet who was complicit? Some tribes in Ghana, notably the Asante, even some groups in Togo and Benin, sold captured people to the white man. Mahama should focus on running Ghana instead of wasting his time on this reparation thing. African politicians with a cup in hand, as always.

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• TheGhTelegraph 1 day ago

  @Implicating A Tribe/ People Especially A So Called Dominant One/ In A Nation Like Gh/ In Such Obnoxious Historical Act/ Places A Form Of Responsibility On Them& People Who Have Exposure To Them To Offer Some Form Of Response ...
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  @Implicating A Tribe/ People Especially A So Called Dominant One/ In A Nation Like Gh/ In Such Obnoxious Historical Act/ Places A Form Of Responsibility On Them& People Who Have Exposure To Them To Offer Some Form Of Response /The Hope Is That Counsels For The Ashanti Kingdom Investment Trust/ Will Eventually Dot The I's &Cross The T's When They Decided To File Their Response

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