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What the US can learn from Africa about slavery reparations

  • Written by Kwasi Konadu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor, Colgate University
What the US can learn from Africa about slavery reparationsActivists mark National Reparations Day in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2019.Alex Wong/Getty Images

The House Judiciary Committee voted on April 14, 2021, to recommend the creation of a commission to study the possibility of paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States.

The measure, H.R. 40, would establish a...

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