By REPARATION: A MUST BUT OF WHAT FORM? – OIA
A major socio-political topic making the rounds today is whether the colonial masters, the Enslavers should pay reparation for their atrocities during the slave trade.
For me, reparation is a must but how this will be paid has always been my concern. If I am given a platform to shed my opinion on this, it will be for the colonial masters to take their knees off our necks, and allow us to exercise not just political freedom but also Economic freedom and more so since they colonised us they would as well need to help with the decolonisation process by ensuring all African rulers who abuses human right must be held accountable and declared persona non granta in foreign countries they run to to hide our collective wealth.
We can never let go of our past until reparation is done appropriately. No amount can get us back the glorious years we’ve lost, the years they took the best of us from the rest of us and left the worst of us to lead the rest of us. We do not need their billions, we only need them to undo what they did to us by lifting their knees off our necks for us to freely breathe. This applies to all those who either enslaved or participated in the extermination of a race in the name of colonization.
I can agree many things can’t be undone but the political and economic freedom can be achieved. I mean how can we undo what was done to the Aboriginal people of Australia who are the actual indigenous people of Australia? These people were bred in order to wipe out their actual existence. Prior to the 14th centuries, there were no single Whites in Australia, it was mostly dominated by the Aboriginals, Tanzamanians, Torres Islanders or so… same with the people of Chagos island that were mostly exterminated in order to take over the Chargos Island, and Diego Gracias Island in Mauritian.
What about the people of Namibia and the atrocities the German committed, even though Germany has apologised openly, recognizing the genocide done to the Herero-Nama people at the start of the 20th century shortly after World War 2, and has agreed to pay some form of reparation.
Most of the atrocities that were committed by these colonisers can not totally be undone, but there has to be some form of reparation that can be cascaded down to the people, and this should come as a form of power to the people. We do not need the colonisers money, the only effective form of reparation that can be given to Africans is for both the colonizers and Neo-colonizers to take their knees off our necks, economically and politically.
BY: OMOTADE ISAAC ADEKUNLE
OIA
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