Archive Categories: Reparations

This document is a letter from Steel Pulse’s management dated September 29, 1993, addressed to Mrs. Simpson via Bernie Grant’s office. The letter expresses Steel Pulse’s intention to commemorate Joy Gardner, a victim of…

This 1993 article from The Voice features MP Bernie Grant discussing the controversial topic of voluntary repatriation for Black people in Britain. Grant acknowledges the growing debate around racial tensions and explores the possibility…

This press release from Bernie Grant, dated December 6, 1996, highlights his call for the return of African artefacts held in British museums. Marking the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland, Grant…

This is a letter from Michael Helston of the UK Department of National Heritage to Seymour Mclean of Ras Tafari International Consultants dated 22 March 1995. It discusses an official inspection of Ethiopian manuscripts…

This is a 1994 letter addressed to Bernie Grant MP from Seymour Mclean of Ras Tafari International Consultants. The letter appeals for support in recovering sacred Ethiopian church property looted by British troops in…

This is a letter dated 29 July 1996 from the Ethiopian World Federation to Bernie Grant MP. It discusses a recent visit to Ethiopia for the centennial of the Battle of Adwa, a significant…

This document announces an International Public Inquiry held in 1996 at Lambeth Town Hall to investigate the looting of Ethiopian Church treasures by the British Army in 1868. The inquiry aimed to examine the…

This document contains papers presented at the World Conference on Reparations to Africa and Africans in the Diaspora, held in Lagos, Nigeria, in December 1990. It explores discussions about reparations for the historical injustices…

This document explains why the African Reparations Movement (A.R.M.) is picketing, focusing on the 1897 British invasion of Benin City in present-day Nigeria. It highlights the historical looting of Benin’s cultural treasures by British…

This document is a flyer announcing a demonstration calling for the return of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The protest was scheduled to take place at the British Museum on Saturday, 15th March 1997.…