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hello welcome to the program. i'm adrian finnegan, off the decades of colonization, exploitation and results extraction african countries want an apology. a paycheck that visit the $55.00 member african union, blanca meeting and addis ababa to try to consolidate to position on repairs for justice. currently, there are all conflicts and mold in such the african states. the violence ensued on a democratic republic of congo in particular, is likely to dominate discussions. so how realistic of the demands for former colonial power has to pay compensation? that is now the right time to be having this debate. we'll get to those questions shortly, but 1st a report from michael, apple repair, entry justice and racial healing following decades of colonial exploitation. on top of the agenda at the african union summit in the e. c o, b, and capital. the lead is from across the continental or discussing how best to go about getting historical acknowledgements and reparations from former colonial

powers. you're at the $55.00 nation block, said hold on, repaired free justice as the theme for this year is gathering at a time of upheaval. on the continent to the size scale and the easy single, why the reparations could take the form of financial compensation for involve investments and infrastructure education and health care to support economic development, i think is on financial assistance to africa very. but some estimates suggest development a to the continent, tops to trillion dollars over the past 60 years. but the african nations on looking for a handout. this is about writing the wrongs of the cost. suzy, p. o. p, and prime minister of the estimate. the demand for the publishes is not about

charlotte or financial aid. it is a call for justice. it's 6 to restore the good, the degree of millions and the here, the deepest costs of poverty and equality and discrimination fault. i will financial compensation on a large scale is rare, but it has happened, poll marie to is a lawyer who represented survive is of the british crack down on mile mile rebels and kenya. in the 1950s, they successfully claimed more than $25000000.00 from the u. k. government in 2012 . despite their success, he bones that legacy maybe and done the lead us to get the to office off by independence for relying the apple kits. critics points out that africa needs to get its house in order saying corruption crews type

talk, receive decades long was, and lead is clinging to power, undermine continental development and progress. while others argue african countries continue to pay the brunt of a brutal legacy of exploitation. forced labor, culturally razor and resource instruction, all of which needs to be acknowledged and accounted for. mike level elders, era for inside story. the, let's bring in a guess from brussels. we're joined by frank, get it. so the system professor in the history of international relations department at utrecht university and author of the ideological scramble for africa and also in brussels. lilian, to be a co founder and co director of african futures, action lab, one more, come to you, but let me and let's start with you. it's the 1st time that the african union has

put this issue of reparations from an center out of summit, but is now the right time to do so. and i thank you very much for inviting me. yes, i think that's what union has been putting these demands for the last 30 years now . and i think europe what and you have in countries in general has refused to dismiss these demands. so i think if we consider the shift, the court according shifting the global dynamics, i think it's, uh, it's definitely the right moment because, um, africa is going to be the central for these global in these global competition since it's worth. so it's resources are needed for the donation that each competing power is looking for. but with president trump appending the global, that is it, in your opinion, leaders interests to address the demands for justice and to pay reparations for

colonial era crime stuff. don't they have to any other issues to deal with right now, to what extent is will be a use cool. be a crying the dock. um i think the uh, the changing that trump is uh, bringing into the global dynamics are impacting europe in terms of heat security. so might impact your in terms of insecurity and in terms of its political and economic donation. and i think it is necessary for europe in countries reconsider and dropping democracy to kind of re considerably it's and partnerships with the rest of the, of the world. and in that sense, if they want to reconsider the product shits with the africa, it is necessary to understand these demands for justice of a great and the regulations that have been at the, at the core of the demands for the last 2 years. frank, what do you spend on this?

is it the right time to be talking about this? i mean it's, it's always the right time to be talking about this, but i think it really depends on how african countries can sort of frame this in such a way that your opinion leaders will be willing to listen and, and the, the nato parliaments, which is sort of a governing body behind nato has actually put out a white paper in january that explicitly acknowledges that the global south africa, in particular, is not supporting european names. it's something that the war and ukraine has learned. subarus taught and european and american leaders is that they're not certain that african leaders will support their aims, or when the europeans are in trouble, that they will get that support. so i think it's, it's, it, it is as good a time as any, to sort of use that sort of diplomatic capital that has been accumulated during the ukraine crisis in the past few years. and forty's, asking companies to step up and say, hey, you need us, right?

you need us not only for supporting ukraine, but you also need us as our other. a guest is pointed out and you also need us for the climate transition, right? all these sort of minerals that you need for batteries and cars. if you want energy security, you will need us. so i think now is a good assign that i need to ask for reparations. and to ask for the new relationship to be billed between africans and europeans. frank, when we talk about repairs rate justice, what exactly do we mean? i mean, so if, if i can jump in. so i think um there's, i think in many ways the, the, that definition has been way too limited. if you look at what your opinions have done since 2020 right. since they moment wednesdays with the black lives matters protests at erupt. thing and in 2020 and this sort of call for the conversation and reparations are really gained momentum. india k in france and belgium,

in the netherlands and, and the, the response has been, i mean, it has been, it's been committed, right. there's been a commission parliamentary commission in belgium. there's been research and france has been sort of an official apology in the other ones. but then when it comes to reparation part, many of these you're being countries then pull back, right? because that is when money is involved and then they don't want to sort of repair past wrongs. and then the argument always goes, well, slavery is a long time ago. are we still response for the conversation? i think what is new about, or what is interesting about the, the strategy that the a you as an output for, is that they are coupling and past issues of slavery past wrongs. they are coupling that explicitly to career and demands for climate justice, right? a climate change is been is the dates of the issue that we're all confronted with. and i think that is um, that, that broader definition of injustice of how the past really shapes the present with

issues that are very, very front of mind. also for europeans like climate change flight the energy transition, i think that's a very smart move to the defined is more broadly than it has been defined in the past. really, and should today's european ship, today's americans be held responsible for the crimes of the past. oh absolutely, i think the 1st thing to, to keep in mind is that we're not talking about only friends of the box we're talking about in the qualities are still maintaining african nations in the african populations and in this situation of a injustices. so i think we in to, to, to compare, met with the my time the guest has just said we, we, there are multiple, the master and the demands are and are, are targeting in new policies in terms of economics. so the reform of the global financial institutions of climate regulations,

they're also denies that concerns the concern of the restitution of artifacts. but also i'm all individual levels. if we look at the, the situation of, for instance, the mix with children, you know, on the fact that some countries, european countries, belgium, for instance, abducted children from african mothers in india, quick lakes region and, and hasn't paid with race since with that. and so i think there are multiple demands and these demands are at the macro level at the community level, but also at the individual level. and i think we have to keep in mind that it's not only problems that have passed, but it's also kremser. feel a shipping light is and of the multiple communities and african populations. and the also the glad to ask for to limit of it's one thing to make these demands. but if the fully on on death is a, as you said in your,

your excellent the guardian newspaper article on saturday, the coal for reparations isn't new. neither is the resistance to them from former colonial power as president trump has said that he doesn't see it happening. and many of york leaders of oppose even even talking about it as, as, as we foot has anything changed to suggest that this former colonial palace will be more sympathetic to africa's demands. and if not, as i said about fee is, what's the point? i think um, uh the, the i got was i was saying there is a shift in the, in the global dynamic, the power between the different different powers. and i think the position of sure of the fact that it has it was completely supported by the we with as a, as in my life, this position is changing and i think it is changing. europe is much more

vulnerable a compared to the past. that's a 1st thing. the 2nd thing is that the also, the position of africa is changing in the sense that even these competition it's uh, the resources that are needed are going to be central. so i think the changes that trump bring brings to, to, to these landscape can impact uh, these are the mounts for renovations and mix these coal much more necessary to police into compared to the past. cuz you said it's not all about financial compensation. but how do you quantify a what a reparation looks like? what would satisfy the, the, the african union countries? i mean, i think that's, that i think that should be one of the aims of this, of this conference. they're really trying to find one, you know, to mean putting a number on the sort of past wrongs i think is maybe a little bit of

a wrong way of, of, of thinking about it. but i think one of the, one of the things that conference should do is trying to think about how can we come up with a set of demands that are routed very much in the process. right. and i think the, the, the strategic choice to think about climate change to think about that vision. i think those very concrete demand spar the way for, right. i think it's, it's a little bit more difficult to really put a number on what i mean, a number on the, on how much you would have to repair in terms of slavery. because there's so many individual cases involved. and that is, i mean, that is also one of the reasons why europeans have been able to sort of stuff their years and not listen. i think one of the great things about this meeting is that it actually is one of the 1st times that it isn't one individual country asked me, its former colonizer to rectify fast ross. it is the, the, the continent of africa as one voice coming up with

a set of demands and then putting those on the table over and over and over again. and i think that is really the excellence and excellent way for it because then you can then you can really reframe a little bit better. what is that you want to do? but putting a number on those individual and i'm sort of bass robin says, prove it to be very, very difficult in the past as, as we've seen in sort of court 4 cases, right? when they're certificate individual lives. and people can sort of then show that they've been individually affected by the colonizer, then those court cases tend to be very successful. it becomes much more difficult, sadly enough, but it goes much more difficult if you know if is the wrong and far more and directed out it, can you the spend when become more abstract? so i think that is such as very is very difficult. so frankly, if it's more about not making demands, the, the, the, the african union expects to be met immediately. it's, it's more about setting out

a clear roadmap for advancing the, the agenda on reparations. so i, so i see this demand for operations. and this present moment, i see this less as well. i mean, i see this less as a, as an historically this sort of fits the background in which countries have come together when they've been faced with disappointment, when they're, when they ask for the for economic justice. right. and so after independence in the store and right, so i think about this historically after independence. modernity, economic development is really what is a demand of the europeans. economic aid is demand and that is only partially met in the seventy's, a lot of a global. so countries come together and they form a new international, economic, warner, and within the u, when they've formed this block in which actually quite successfully are able to demand a technology trends for

a funding for the modernization of technologies. but then because of the debt crisis in the eighty's, that again collapses. and what you see now is, is this response again to the, to this moment of disappointment. where did the call is ation discourse in the, in the, in the night in the 20 twenty's during the pandemic, and defend that make itself with all the qualities that came with the, with the provision effect scenes. and now these are confused are coming together again to sort of try and form a block to ask for, for justice. so i think this, this, these demand sort of fit a much broader diplomatic pattern. i don't think you can at that, but i wouldn't see it is necessarily only as a reparations issues from, from the conversation i see does as a diplomatic defensive. that's what this is. this is an attempt to form a diplomatic block into you when outside of the you and the also recognize this at future meetings, a future cult meetings to ask for climate justice. where are we?

right? we're all of these meetings and all these un meetings and all these international for us, we're africa, is being just those of like coming up with a way by acting as a block with one demand for one submission of what justice looks like. you can, you have a much better chance as good as getting the europeans to listen to you. so it was, it is more that the formatting issue then as a simple reparations issue coming out of colonialism. okay, let me, i, i so you know, to get agree with that you want to come in on that? yeah, i think it's so 1st of all, i think african countries have a designated as a form of justice and reparation. so just with it, i think it's important to respect that phrasing a secondly, i think in 2022 the african union and many individual for kind of countries have come together and have a set up

a declaration with multiple demands of a nation in, you know, either the kindly, the issues the do have to address the necessary to address the of the which form of financial institutions you and security council. so i think there is a list of a very clear demands in terms of what needs to be repaired and how it is tied to the historical contemporary by showing justices. so i think it's uh, can we, can we start from the demands that have been there for these uh, for so many years and, and, and starting discussion from that because yeah, that it's clear, it's derek. they have come together already as a big corporation. so i think it should be the starting point, the for one to to, to, to respect, also the voices from the state and from the states and why, from the population liliana. i'm just gonna come back to the school. as i said, the erosion, the, the, the guardian newspaper on saturday about the effects of collodion,

that clearly lists them and slavery that are still being felt not today if you touched upon it earlier without the slave trade use you said a new article, quoting some studies africa today would be a development level compatible with asia and latin america. that's quite astonishing. is that? yes, it's quite astonishing. and i think it's many tend to forget that the, the, the development of your, of the development of the, of western states have, has been built on the back of all the boxes, trays that have been of the center of the, of, of, of slavery traded. so if we take all the, the system, the plumbing system that had been put in place in the, and from the, from the 15 century, up to the 19th century, is that how these erupt in states have been the kind of things we have to. we have to consider the way that these different men is coming from and i would experience

it has been done to uh to that and it has been done before the african countries, the fact that their societies were completely destroy the destroyed to. so i think that's an important point. i think it's uh they have many economies studies that have been that have shown these uh, per month. so it's not, it's not coming only from i forget to, because like i think we, we built this argument of the business of africa or do it. so let me studies there had been done on this issue, frank portugal and slaved more africans than any other nation. and when it's president suggested recently, but that might be a need for reparations. a far right party and portugal said that he should be charged with treason. the president of covered has said the right ring, populism and its effect on a motor at politics has made it difficult even though to hold any kind of debate on the issue. is he right?

um. yeah. and he seems to be right. i mean, it seems to be very, very difficult to talk about reparations. and i mean, people are very willing to sort of talk about the past wrongs of colonialism but, but the, it is always an issue once the, once the, the problem of financial reparations comes up. this has been, i mean very clear, the country i live in, in belgium and had a pioneering role in setting up a parliamentary commission that then investigated, investigate the colonial crimes that, that belgium committed in it states call when you have the condo, it took 2 years to sort of come up with this report, a lot of historians were involved in, in setting up this, this reform and eventually resulted also in returning some of the remains of the 1st prime minister of the congo, who was assassinated with assistance from the belgians and returning some of those

remains to do control saw, but we then the, the, the belgian parliament refused to give formal apologies out of the sheer fear that financial, that there would be financial consequences connected to that and to that apology. so if you, if that is the base position is, is that is, is that as a starting position and this sort of an added, which we've seen since, i mean the election of trump and, and also other european countries. and the increased popularity of right wing parties, but even more right wing discourses and that makes it only harder to sort of get to that place where reparations become an acceptable form of a policy of foreign policy. and so, so yes, absolutely. does that the more popular extreme right wing voice has become more difficult is going to become for even moderate your be

a leader is due to stuff like so it listens, thirties demands from african leaders. okay, lillian, as we said this is the 1st time the african union has put the issue of reparations front and center of the summit. is the danger that this call for justice and reparations for post colonial era crimes will detract from what many would argue a formal pressing issues like the conflicts ensued on, on the democratic republic of congo. i think it is important to also try to consider the fact that many of the contemporary african conflicts that we are seeing now had their roots in the, in the, in, in colonialism, in the ways in which the populations had been separated. the states have been, uh, have been built, have been constructed. so i'm sure that if we want to address the complex to contemporary conferences in africa today,

we have to look at their colonial weeds foods and avoiding looking at those words. we would not necessarily find the right solutions, so i will think it's a way to to deviate the discussion on these complex. i think i the opposite. i think we have to consider these clearly are passed in the way to shipping the contemporary societies and impacting them in preventing 20 rapid with peaceful at the dropping societies. and in that sense, it is a, it is a form of thought and of facing. and these challenging situation and indeed i see, but it was so in the industry down front, would you agree with that? what would it take for this summit to have been deemed a success? i mean, i would absolutely agree with what literally i said, um, i think this, this summit is the thing and in many ways an opportunity to, to bring african leaders together over these over these issues. right. the, the,

the whole problem around goma and the rwandan and influence in, in the east of congo. and that, that entire issue is rooted in colonialism in the failure of the belgians to the right. properly, properly, the colonizer, just get out of the congo in a normal way. and so, and i think a lot of african leaders would agree on that analysis. and i think it wouldn't bring a lot of the leaders who would normally not want to sit in the same room at this point because of all these issues and issues and the modem. lease, thinking about going i'm, i'm also thinking about the, the flurries we've had of who was in the west of africa in the french west africa. and the only thing is we normally wouldn't want to sit in a room together. it might bring them in a room together and they might also start talking about other issues. so i think the summit, but someone will definitely be a success, is that they've the african unit again come out. ready and

a very clear definition of what they want of what reparations need of how they wanted to find this and how they want to mobilize this into the full amount of defensive. and i think the, the outspoken aims here, the silent aims here is also bring people together in a room who have been in conflict for quite some time. so maybe also start talking about some other issues that we understand that many thanks and day to by frank, get it and liliana from a be thank you for watching. you can see the program again at any time by going to the website that was a 0. don't com. for further discussion, join us at our facebook page. you'll find that at facebook dot com forward slash h a inside story. and you can join the conversation on x, i'll handle that as, as a joy inside story for me. avery, instead of get out of the team here. and so we'll see you again, bye. for now, the,

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