Resource hub presenting the life's work of the late Bernie Grant MP
The World Conference on Reparations to Africa and Africans in the Diaspora, Lagos Nigeria 1990 Although the Abuja Conference and its Proclamation is better known and commemorated, the event which facilitated it was the World Conference on Reparations to Africa and Africans in the Diaspora. Like the Abuja Conference, it was held in Nigeria and … Read more
First Pan African Conference on Reparations and the Abuja Declaration Abuja Proclamation In April 1993, The First Pan African Conference on Reparations was convened in Abuja, Nigeria. It was sponsored by the Group of Eminent Persons (GEP), the Commission for Reparations of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria. The … Read more
African Reparations Movement UK The African Reparations Movement (ARM) UK served as the foremost national organisation for Reparations in Britain, and through its connection to the Organisation of African Unity, was the UK wing of the global movement for Reparations. Active from 1993 until Grant’s death in 2000, ARM had a unique structure and programme … Read more
Birmingham Conference on Reparations, ‘What Do Reparations Mean?’ Pargraph 1 De-briefing on preparatory conference on African reparations An important feature of the Birmingham Conference were the papers presented. In The Black Agenda for the Next Century: Rethinking the Past, Dr Patrick Wilmott articulated the urgent need for Reparations, in order to safeguard the future of … Read more
The movement for African Reparations is a broad, longstanding, global movement. Reparations as a term is Latin in origin, meaning to ‘repair’ or ‘restore’. The movement for African Reparations therefore seeks justice for the crimes which have been committed against Africa, Africans and people of African descent over the last 500 years. Reparationists argue for … Read more
Resource hub presenting the life's work of the late Bernie Grant MP