The Member of Parliament (MP) for Salaga South, Zuwera Mohammed Ibrahimah, has said that Africans deserve reparations from the West to address the "historical injustices and injurious crimes committed against Africans and people of African descent through the transatlantic enslavement, colonisation and apartheid".
She explained that such a gesture would also "address the inequities present in the international economic and political orders, as well as demonstrate the progress of reparatory justice and healing for Africans and for all people of African descent".
Addressing the subject in Parliament on Friday in the wake of the theme for the AU's 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from February 15-16, 2025, the MP said an earlier conference held in Accra on reparations had proposed the establishment of a "Committee of Experts on Reparations, to develop an African Common Position on Reparations".
The 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU was on the theme: "Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations".
