The resolution also reaffirms that crimes against humanity are not subject to statutes of limitation. This principle, echoed across legal and moral traditions, reflects a simple truth: grave injustices do not expire. They impose ongoing duties to tell the truth, educate future generations honestly and ensure non-repetition
He fought tooth and nail so that the transatlantic slave trade should not repeat itself anywhere, where our people faced brutal conditions and many lost their lives
The word Azania is used in this country by political parties and others as a symbolic rejection of apartheid and white supremacy
Making America Great Again is the personification of narcissistic censure to maintain dominance. We need to build solidarity and safety in the face of geno/ecocides, hate and state repression
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
Specific foods and recipes are associated with specific countries and also traditions, but as people have moved so have these foods
AI has set time ticking for humanity
The Barbados government wants reparation payments from the successors of the plantation’s founderJames Drax, led by Richard Drax, a wealthy British MP
Professor Rafael Winkler unravels several philosophies of the age that lie behind an anti-slavery 19th century lithograph
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without the continent’s natural resources and centuries of cheap African labour
In a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi takes a look at the colonial conquests that drove us here
As Freedom Day approaches, an American reflects on how our history has become his too
In the frantic pursuit of patriarchal ideas of manhood, boys often lose their ability to love — this paves the way for cruelty and violence
The protests that have taken place in the United States confront the racialised edifice that built the modern world
Neo Muyanga’s ‘Making Grace Amazing’ is one of the online offerings at this year’s National Arts Festival in Makhanda
Frank B Wilderson discusses ‘Afropessimism’, his memoir that analyses structural violence
A statue of the French king in Louisville, Kentucky was damaged during the protests against police killings. It should not be repaired
There is no separating George Floyd’s killing from the struggles black people have faced ever since the first slave ships landed on these shores
Gregory Maqoma revives a Zakes Mda character, mixing Ravel’s Boléro with isicathamiya to mourn, to hope, and to celebrate life
The research concluded that fewer slaves were taken from African countries with a higher average IQ
The two-year project will seek ‘appropriate ways to publicly acknowledge past links to slavery and to address its impact’
Despite what a recent CNN documentary claims, there is no pervasive child slavery problem in Ghana’s Lake Volta region
Estimates of modern slavery vary widely, whether they try to pin down numbers in the US, across the globe or just in certain industries
‘I choose to get my hands dirty’
Next month’s African Union summit will be hosted by one of the world’s worst perpetrators, but slavery is off the agenda
Photojournalist, Seif Kousmate, photographed and interviewed current and former slaves in Mauritania and got imprisoned by police in the process.
Eritreans have become desensitised; the slavery in Libya is “the new normal”
Sent home after failing to reach Europe, migrants tell of the horrors they endured
We look at how African men are being auctioned and being sold off to smugglers for as little as $400 as part of Libya’s slave trade
Modern-day slave markets in Libya were on the lips of African and European leaders at the opening of the summit in Abidjan
Hundreds of African refugees are being bought and sold in "slave markets" across Libya, but many do not survive the journey across the desert.
The migration policies of the European Union have directly resulted in slavery conditions for migrants in Libya.
