Macron Speaks on Reparations as Africa Pushes Historical Justice Back onto the Global Table
France has opened a new conversation on reparations for slavery, but the harder question remains: will symbolic recognition lead to material justice? French President Emmanuel Macron has stepped into one of the most difficult historical debates linking Europe, Africa and the Caribbean: the question of reparations for slavery. In a recent speech marking the 25th […]
Living Sustainably Here: African Voices Take the SDGs Beyond Policy Rooms
Launched at the 25th Nigeria International Book Fair in Lagos, a new multi-volume anthology argues that Africa’s sustainability future must be shaped not only by global targets and technical policy, but by books, culture, knowledge, memory and lived African experience. At the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts in Lagos, the building formerly […]