Reparative justice

Kofi Mawuli Klu is a versatile indigenous Gbetowo Community-rooted independent scholar-activist jurisconsult. He specialises in the pan-Afrikan indigeneity promotion of law-related global citizenship education, and in the decolonisation furtherance of planet repairs internationalism, as conducive to winning global justice for all. Kofi is currently living and working in a diversity of organisations from London, United Kingdom.

UN Address by Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, 1960

This certainly is a must read because of its historic importance: being the very first Pan-Afrikan Reparatory Justice conceptual statement, from the thought of President Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah as a newly independent Afrikan head of state, addressed on 23rd September 1960 to the World, from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly.

Return to the Source by Dr Amilcar Cabral, 1972

Dr Amilcar Cabral articulates, in this 15 October 1972 address, the "Return to the Source" quintessence of Pan-Afrikan Reparatory Justice. This kind of articulation has long been enshrined in indigenous Afrikan Knowledge systemic crystallisations, globally popularised as "Sankofa", from the Twi language and the epistemology of the indigenous Akan nation in West Afrika.

Lines drawn by Empire by Boucka Stephane Koffi, 2025.

This outstanding contribution was made to an LSE panel discussion in November 2025 by Boucka Stephane Koffi, an indigenous Akan community-rooted, migrant rights campaigning and anti-racist decolonisation scholar-Activist for reparatory justice. This speech exemplifies the anti-coloniality perspectives shared by many of those still upholding and advocating the antiimperialist standpoint of revolutionary pan-Afrikan internationalism for planet repairs.

Beyond compensation: Reparatory justice as a structural economic imperative for Africa by Cristina Duarte, 2025.

This Cristina Duarte article makes very interesting reading, particularly with regard to her comments on the African Reparations imperative of global structural reforms. What is all the more interesting, is that she wrote the article while a Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General.

Towards a framework of reparatory measures for the enslavement and colonisation of the African people by Justice Mavedzenge, 2024.

This Justice Mavedzenge article is a typical example of the narrowly elitist academic expositions of Eurocentric scholasticism on reparations. Its informative content is devalued by the typical elitist approach to ignoring the very rich seminal knowledge production contributions by indigenous Afrikan communities of resistance and their grassroots community-based scholar activists and various organisational formations, including the freedom fighting contingents of the global Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement.