Apologies for slavery are meaningless without reparations
02 July 2023 - 00:00
You do not say sorry with your mouth. Our historical consciousness of African moral law demands that we ask the Dutch, the French, the British, the Portuguese, the Germans, and all our other enslavers and colonisers: nixolisa ngani -with what are you apologising?..
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