Towards Transformative Justice: A Position Paper on a Decolonial, Pan-African Feminist Approach to Reparations

The legacy of colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and imperial exploitation is deeply gendered and racialised. Colonialism did not merely impose foreign rule, it systematically reinvented African social structures, identities and gender relations. The case for reparations is not only about addressing historical harm, but about confronting the ongoing legacies of colonialism and the neoliberal dispossession of African womxn that persist in the present.

This paper rethinks justice, repair, and accountability on the continent, through a decolonial, pan-African feminist approach to reparations.