Detailed Summary from The Business & Financial Times
PaJohn Dadson’s March 23, 2025, article in The Business & Financial Times, “What Happened to Africa?: Reparations summit reconvenes to construct a more accurate African-centred narrative of our history,” spotlights Accra Summit II, kicking off March 26-28, 2025, at Big Blue Resort in Nyanyanor, Ghana. Building on 2022’s “Advancing Justice: Reparations and Racial Healing” summit—co-hosted by the African Union (AU), Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund, Africa-America Institute, and Global Circle for Reparations and Healing—this sequel doubles down on healing as the 2025 AU theme: “Centring Healing for Africans and the Global African Diaspora.” The first summit’s Accra Declaration nailed slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and genocide as gut punches to Africa’s body, mind, and spirit, leaving scars unmeasured and untreated for centuries.
Dadson digs into the why: transatlantic slave trade and colonial plunder kicked off multi-generational trauma—objectification, commodification, dehumanization—that’s stunted Africa’s socio-economic rise. Summit I pegged healing as step one for reparations, and now Summit II aims to spark grassroots fixes across Global Africa. With online sessions, it’s a call to measure and mend those wounds, uniting influencers, AU reps, and diaspora voices to answer: What happened to Africa? The International Law Commission’s five reparations pillars—cessation, restitution, compensation, satisfaction, rehabilitation—frame the fight. Dadson ties it to 2025’s AU push, urging a loud, unified African narrative to rewrite history right.
PowerAfrika’s Opinion
At PowerAfrika, we’re roaring—Africa’s past isn’t a mystery, it’s a heist, and reparations are non-negotiable. Slavery and colonialism didn’t just happen; they gutted a continent, and “Dumsor”-style excuses won’t cut it. Mentally, healing cracks open pride—truth over lies. Spiritually, it’s a reclaiming—Africa’s soul isn’t for sale. Economically, it’s justice—trillions looted demand trillions returned. Physically, it’s power—solar chargers in every village beat colonial shadows. Psychologically, it’s a reset—Africa stands, not kneels. We say: ditch the half-measures—full reparations, cash to culture, now. PowerAfrika wants powerafrika.com as the megaphone—reconstructing Africa’s story, one unfiltered voice at a time.
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The Bigger Picture
Imagine Africa healed—villages hum with solar chargers, cities pulse with repaid wealth. Mentally, it’s clarity—history’s ours to tell. Spiritually, it’s fire—roots run deep. Economically, it’s muscle—looted trillions fuel schools, not foreign vaults. Physically, it’s strength—grids glow, not flicker. Psychologically, it’s a crown—Africa rises, head high. PowerAfrika sees a hub where warriors, writers, and workers collide: What’s reparations worth? Cash, land, truth—all of it. Summit II’s not a chat—it’s a war cry for Africa and its diaspora to demand what’s owed.
Facts You Didn’t Know
- Slave trade shipped 12M+ Africans—Ghana’s shores bled first!
- Colonialism’s loot? Trillions—enough for 50M water pumps today!
- 2022’s Accra Declaration? First AU-backed reparations blueprint!