Shangox,
📖 Executive Summary
Repudiating the Chains is a legal, moral, and historical indictment of Africa’s sovereign debt system. It argues that Africa’s debt is not merely unsustainable — it is illegitimate, odious, and structured to preserve neocolonial control through finance. Authored by Shangox and published under PowerAfrika, the manifesto dissects international legal principles including Odious Debt, State of Necessity, Coercion, and Unjust Enrichment, and applies them to case studies from Zaire, South Africa, Nigeria, and Liberia.
This is not a plea for debt relief — it is a demand for sovereignty, justice, and the end of financial servitude. The paper outlines legal strategies, moral arguments, and political tools for repudiating illegitimate debt and constructing a new architecture of African financial autonomy.
It is a declaration, a blueprint, and a moral summons for a future in which Africa does not beg — it builds.